First Person
Parenting on a planet in pain
How do I teach my children to care for an ailing world?
Baptist and Buddhist
Stuck in the throes of a chaplain’s crisis, I leaned on the everlasting arms while consulting the ancient dharma.
The religious door-knockers are back
These days I’m receiving them with a kinder heart.
How should I pray for the climate?
I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene.
The Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey taught me how to pray again
So why didn’t I want to introduce my Methodist congregants to them?
Maybe it’s time for me to let go of Thomas Merton
Who do I pay attention to who may be prophetically controversial today?
Don’t tell my Pentecostal mom, but I pray the Hail Mary
My Grandma Violet was the black sheep of our family. I think of her when I pray.
The five spiritual senses
Lessons from Maximus the Confessor and my dog
At Tijuana shelter Casa del Migrante, every meal is holy
I take the morning shift to give the longer-term volunteers a few hours of rest.
My child died shortly after my mother died
In between, I was ordained a priest.
Three years after the Tree of Life attack, my community struggles to feel safe
One of our Sukkot rituals helps me think about what it means to fight against evil.
I just can’t quit Facebook
Yes, it’s harmful to children, democracy, and much more. It also makes my life better.
The kingdom of heaven is like the Brooklyn Public Library
What it has it must freely give away.
Vocational gluttony
Finding a through line for my many pursuits
God’s nose
When COVID took my sense of smell, I was drawn to the Bible’s description of God’s.
My hospice nurse’s horse
The mare pulled the meniscus in her knee. This left my nurse with a tough choice.
Birthing you is an act of radical hope
Accepting the call to Black motherhood without averting my eyes from the spectacle of Black death