Good Friday – What’s Going on?

Good Friday – What’s Going on?

Of all the holidays in the year – religious, patriotic and otherwise – Good Friday is the most meaningful for me. For the last several years, I have spent part of Good Friday in a vigil visiting sites where death by gun violence occurred, reading and reflecting...
The Politics of Easter

The Politics of Easter

       On Good Friday for the last five years I have attended an ecumenical service/witness against gun violence sponsored by the interfaith gun violence prevention organization Heeding God’s Call. Five years ago, along with 11 others, I participated in...
Easter Reflection-The Christ Who Keeps Moving

Easter Reflection-The Christ Who Keeps Moving

Every Easter I read a meditation written by Thomas Merton entitled He is Risen. Here is an excerpt from the book that always seems to move me Christ is the Lord of a history that moves. He not only holds the beginning and the end in his hands. But he is in history...