We don’t give the church its mission. Christ does.

Joy in the next life depends upon justice in this one.

The best things in life really are free.

We stayed there through the night, waiting for reports from “the great out there.”

The phone rang. “Father, it’s Joss. We think there is someone in the choir loft.”

Pride isn’t the answer to our fears. Humility is. If you lack humility, pray for God to gird your life with love.

We can close ourselves to the best of this life, and, however else we define sin, it is surely that.

Death doesn’t come by calendar or clock, but it need not come as thief.

There are truths about ourselves that we alone know. And there are others that everyone, except us, can see.

How good are we with the cracks, with responding to unexpected demands?