Meditations

Recently I heard a hospice chaplain, who has counseled many dying people, say that he’s seeing many more “bad deaths.” I used to think that most people came to terms…

If the universe is infinitely good, and intelligence and love infuse the cosmos, then how did evil arise?

There have been too many encounters with animals in nature, too many non-coincidental and propitious moments, not to heed them when they occur.

Ashland Oregon appears to be everything that its sister city, Chico California used to be but no longer is—a small, distinctive, tight-knit community of people united in their love of…

Researching an environmental organization of shared intent and goals, I was struck by a core question on its homepage: “What are we not paying attention to?”

Arriving at Lake Apserkaha in the mountains of southern Oregon for a men’s gathering around the theme, “Embracing Climate Change,” I was dismayed, but not shocked to find the lake…

It’s spiritually immature in the extreme for a pope or a pundit to believe that “dogs go to heaven.” For a pundit to write such blather is silly and sentimental;…

Though I was brutally raised Catholic at a time when children were forced to attend Mass in Latin six days a week (five before school and once on Sunday), I…