Minute Meditations

While collegiate and professional sports are big business in this country, the Olympics feel like a purer celebration of sport somehow.

All around the world people are looking for meaning and finding it in strange, even destructive places.

Anthony traveled tirelessly in both northern Italy and southern France, choosing to enter the cities where the heretics were strongest.

As strange as it sounds, I don’t believe our world has much desire left in it.

When I once preached on the wedding feast at Cana, I suggested that the six stone jars had a moral interpretation: six ways to purify the soul.

Forget your cell, your cave, your place of prayer and be where you are—and in no other place.