Tag Archives: school shootings

Eleison

Posted on May 18, 2018 by

Christ, have mercy, we expostulate once more. Continue reading →

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Seventeen

Posted on March 14, 2018 by

At ten o’clock on the fourteenth day of the third month of year two thousand eighteen of this portion of our history, twenty-eight days after seventeen of their generation died in one school, in one day, countless students will leave their classes, searching for one more word of covenant, one more promise of life redeemed from the chaos. Continue reading →

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Cleansing the temple

Posted on March 3, 2018 by

Christ, cleanse our temple courts where money changes hands to purchase  sacrificial lambs offered on the high altar hymned with thoughts and prayers and the black sheep, tethered, set aside for the devotions of white-robed acolytes, while mourners shuffle ceaseless intercessions … Continue reading →

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“Startled” is putting it mildly

Posted on February 23, 2018 by

“I mention all of this because I am able to consider Donald Trump’s suggestion that teachers in school should carry weapons, recalling my roles as a soldier, an educator and a parent.” Continue reading →

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We came here after Columbine

Posted on February 15, 2018 by

Let’s paint them
red, white, and blue
have some clergyman
compose a pledge
teach our children to recite it
hand on heart Continue reading →

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Do not give your heart to the ashes

Posted on February 14, 2018 by

The landscape within which we live is littered with sin, from the scars we inflict upon the earth on up through the twisted veins of hearts that would burn down a church built in the image of God’s mercy. And it is impossible to stand here in an attitude of repentance tonight without acknowledging the complicity of our common life in the deaths of 17 students, children, at a high school in Florida this afternoon. Our participation in systems of sin, as its priests and as its victims, is as inevitable as the ice of winter. Continue reading →

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Security alert

Posted on October 27, 2015 by

Count seconds between eruptions; dog howl fear strikes: cell phone lightning storm.

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Year A Proper 25: For the love of God

Posted on October 25, 2014 by

This post has been updated to reflect the version preached at the Church of the Epiphany, Euclid, Ohio, October 26th. Which commandment is the greatest? they asked. It is not, in fact, a difficult question. How else can you even … Continue reading →

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Out of the mouths

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

“Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings…” – isn’t that what the Bible says? Yesterday, the NRA broke its quite understandable, even welcome, silence following the news out of Newtown last week. More guns, they suggested, would prevent more … Continue reading →

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