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Mary Robert and I just attended the Spring Clergy conference of our diocese. Dr. Catherine Keller, process theologian extraordinaire was our presenter. In her opening lecture she spoke of two modalities of knowing having to do with knowing self, knowing one’s environment and knowing God. The first mode of knowingRead More →

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I received something of a cryptic E-mail a few days ago. At first it looked like spam, but the sender’s name was vaguely familiar, so I opened it. It was titled something like “in praise of God’s greening love,” and it went on to talk about the advent of spring,Read More →

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Today is the feast day of Catherine of Siena. The Mass at noon today was in her honor. She lived in the Tuscan city of Siena in the late fourteenth century. At age five it is told that she had a vision of the great martyrs in the heavenly courtsRead More →

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I write here in Austin Texas at the library of the Seminary of the Southwest. It is about seventy degrees outside at about 20% humidity. We don’t know about twenty percent humidity in Mobile. My sinuses are confused. There’s not a cloud in the sky and around noon we tookRead More →

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At one time I had a Celtic cross that I wore around my neck, just for two or three years or so. I remember a college friend asked me that if Jesus had been killed by firing squad, would I then wear a gun around my neck…or an electric chair,Read More →