The Gospel Reading for the Second Sunday of Lent is a familiar one: it is the Transfiguration of Jesus. Mark 9:2-10: "Jesus took Peter, James, and Johnand led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.And he was transfigured before them,and his clothes became dazzling white,such as no fuller on ea...

A realization came to me at work some time ago (I think last summer, 2008). It was a bad day at work, and I was wondering about why we have to endure certain things. I know I've written a great number of times about the need to accept suffering as evidence of our willingness to follow Christ, but at...

When one area of my life is out of whack I have found it important to have something useful to serve as a kind of counterweight to it. Having a life outside one's job (for example) provides a sense of balance. When we work full-time we have a sense of displacement in our lives. Work occupies so much...

I think we almost broke up tonight. Everyone's telling me to try. My natural impulse is to run. Not run away, just keep running. When I'm running, it's very rarely from something, and only sometimes is it to something. I actually just like to run. And for this, I have to slow down a minute and take ...