‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made...

In the incarnation, God confronts man face to face—a confrontation, a holy mystery, a sacred enfleshment full of both grace and mercy....

Stumbling towards Bethlehem to gaze upon the humble King, While the city lights entreat me to linger, to stay, to spend. Stumbling...

Lament is a gift for a church tempted to deny reality, residing in a world of romanticized, spiritualized abstraction. The language of...

Throughout his earthly ministry, Jesus proclaimed, performed, embraced, and enacted the Kingdom of God. He preached, ‘The Kingdom of God...

In fragile faith, With the tenacious audacity of hope, All is not as it seems. A veil, like winter's fog, separates the divine from...

Father of Creation, God of Compassion, We thank you for the fragile gift of life, And the beautiful world that you made. To you be all...

Advent One Father of Creation, God of Hope. The prophets of old looked forward, With expectation, And anticipation, To the arrival of the...

“And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will...

Where is God? Silent, in darkness, neither moving, nor listening nor speaking, His lifeless corpse is laid in the tomb. God is dead, and...

Hope is the tenacious refusal to accept the 'status quo' as the final word, and it whispers, or dare we say, shouts, a defiant protest...

Death adamantly utters ‘no’ to the gift of life, mirroring the ‘yes’ spoken by the violence of crucifixion to both empire and injustice....

‘It becomes ever clearer that climate change is the greatest threat we and future generations face. A true horseman of the apocalypse....

Dear Chichester Diocese , I noticed that you have recently voted to continue investing and making financial profit from the fossil fuel...

We find ourselves entangled in a fairy tale, woven from deep-seated myths that serve as the underpinning of our political and economic...

Jesus, a Palestinian Jew raised within the Roman Empire—a colonizing force that established the 'Pax Romana' through military...

Sometimes, Not all the time, I doubt. The gift of faith is absent, And for a moment, I feel alone. Sometimes, Not all the time, I doubt....

The horror and torture of Jesus reached its culmination. Dying alone, desecrated, one of the condemned, his body now lay lifeless in the...

Fr. John Dear is an internationally recognized voice for peace and nonviolence. He has been arrested some 85 times for actions concerning...

Jesus preached, embodied, and enacted the Kingdom of God, and taught his followers to do the same. This kingdom represents the presence...