Minding the Gap: In Thanksgiving for Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, O.P.
In the Sunday Gospel today, Jesus tells the parable of a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus who lay hungry and …
A Dream of Life: Remembering 9/11
The image that leads this post I created some eleven years ago in conjunction with a self-produced CD of original songs that …
What About My People?
We all have a story. We all have collective memories that we draw upon as a community every day, memories of shared …
Legs That Breathe Snake Venom: On Silence and Speech
I recently found myself on a nighttime walk through Washington D.C., discussing the power and limits of language with a science-minded friend. …
American Skin: Hoping Against Hope
The words JUST-US scrawled across my computer screen and I immediately knew something was terribly wrong. The Facebook post had 20 likes …
Why Theology?
“There must be a place, between abstraction and childishness, where one can speak seriously about serious things.” ~ Czeslaw Milosz, Treatise on …
Race and the Song Circle [from Ch. 1]
In the summer of 1988 at the tender age of 23, I packed up my belongings and left my hometown of Lexington, …
