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One of my new year resolutions... or desires, rather (as I don't really believe in resolutions), is to hold, taste and be grateful for the life-giving moments. And I had one such extended moment this past week: the possibility of participating in the Clergy Summer...

I don’t like Christmas carols. Sorry! I never have. Or at least they do not move me as other music does. However, this morning I found myself in tears as I sang Gloria in Excelsis Deo with the members of a packed church in Singapore. Why? Probably many reasons, not...

Lately I feel drawn to blank pages and dark empty spaces…places where I can breathe, and hear, and sense, without much noise. And I know God indwells all things, and I have often sensed Jesus presence in the midst of ministry and service with little sleep, but right...

This is  a short one, and I don't usually simply re-post, but this is simply worth it. It is the message of the Pope to the International Theological Commission on December 5th. I guess it is good to simply note that what is said in such a short message is important...

Sometimes when I write, or when I have time to delve into a theologian’s life work and allow it explain myself (and my God) to me, I find myself, even in my office at the the end of a  beautiful day shining through my window, (yes, I know – Day of the Lord),...

Last week one of my nieces, who is turning 25, wrote me a message (facebook being the way I keep in contact with that generation of my family) asking for a contribution to a book she wants to write, called When I was 25. She is gathering paragraphs on what was...

After last week's blog on how at times it is music that makes sense of us,rather than us understanding music, in one of my classes, I had the one of most involved sessions of the semester. It was based on the song I wrote about last week and on the forgotten (they...

Every now and again a song stops me in my tracks. The most recent was this one: Say something. I had to stop the car and listen. Even without knowing why: it simply held me, touching something I did not even know needed to emerge and be named. And in all truth I am...