Over my 82 years, I have had many experiences of darkness coming and darkness going away. So when I try to comprehend theologians who teach and mystics who experience non-dualism, who say darkness and ...

Perhaps given the time of year, it’s a bit predictable to focus on these phrases from Isaiah. We are, after all, approaching the shortest day on the calendar. In Chicago, where I live, the sun will ...

June 21 was the beginning of summer and has the longest hours of daylight. In the northernmost areas of the earth, it is light 24 hours a day during the beginning of summer. Then, during the first ...

People from various walks of life grapple with questions of life in the face of mortality. We don't know how. We don't know when. But death comes to us all. To be human is to wrestle with this truth. ...

In Wisconsin, the weather is drab and gray most days this time of year. We get up while it is still dark outside, and by the time we get home to have dinner, the sun, if it appeared at all during the ...

The metaphor of light continues in this Sunday’s readings. Last week, the image of the sundown twilight in Montana’s Mission Valley helped to illustrate that such majesty must be experienced in person ...

Commentary from the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Most Reverend Michael Curry: Sometime in the mid-1980s, I heard Archbishop Desmond Tutu speak. This was during some of the most ...

One of my favorite stories in the Bible is in the 8th chapter of John’s gospel. Here a young woman is caught in the act of adultery. She is chased through the streets by men who would stone her to ...

We are born as impressionable slates full of openness, curiosity, playfulness, and eagerness to learn. There are innumerable sources of learning, and we trust those whom we perceive as having wisdom ...

2020 was such a dark year. For me, the announcement of the Pfizer vaccine created a pinprick of light at the end of a very long tunnel. Finally, I found hope. And what a lift it gave my soul! That ...

Vice President Joe Biden delivered the best speech of his career. It was so well written, it could have been done by the speechwriters for Presidents Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. They are the two ...