I was in Chicago for studies for the first two weeks of January. Sometimes when you are away you miss the news. Last week, at lunch with a parishioner, I learned about the death of a 63 year old man who had wandered away from his residence at Brouillette Manor on January 02. He died... Continue Reading →

OUR POLICE – TAKING ACTION REGARDLESS OF FEAR Ambrose Redmoon wrote, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  The timid presume it is lack of fear that allows the brave to act when the timid do not. But to take action when one... Continue Reading →

Fredrick Buechner writes; "We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously." Yesterday was the Baptism of the Lord... Continue Reading →

The mission and goals section of McCormick Theological Seminary's wepage says that the school is “...a community of learning and teaching, challenged by the Holy Spirit and grounded in God’s transforming love for the world in Jesus Christ. We are committed to institutional life, scholarship and ministry that are ecumenical, urban and cross-cultural.” Sounds pretty... Continue Reading →

Henri Nouwen writes: “To the degree that we accept that through Christ we ourselves have been reconciled with God we can be messengers of reconciliation for others. Essential to the work of reconciliation is a nonjudgmental presence. We are not sent to the world to judge, to condemn, to evaluate, to classify, or to label.... Continue Reading →