MONDAY MATTERS Reflections to start the week Monday, November 17, 2014 
Spiritual nationality The pope is at it again. Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. I pray for this…

MONDAY MATTERS Reflections to start the week Monday, November 10, 2014 Of soldiers and saints. Tomorrow we observe the feast of St. Martin, coincident with national observance of Veterans' Day.…

MONDAY MATTERS Reflections to start the week Monday, November 3, 2014 For a few years, I served at a church in midtown Manhattan. It probably had as much pedestrian traffic…

MONDAY MATTERS Reflections to start the week Monday, October 27, 2014 What is spiritual growth? The work I'm doing these days tries to get people talking about spiritual growth as…

MONDAY MATTERS Reflections to start the week Monday, October 20, 2014 Signs of the times "Am I open to God's surprises? Am I at a standstill, or am I on…

MONDAY MATTERS Reflections to start the week Monday, October 13, 2014 We do not lose heart.  His name was Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, a name almost as distinctive as his…

MONDAY MATTERS Reflections to start the week Monday, October 6, 2014 Mission, Part II It's an honor to spend time each week writing about the ways we put faith to…

MONDAY MATTERS Reflections to start the week Monday, September 29, 2014 Mission We began our day with reflection on scripture, meeting last Tuesday in the chapel at Willow Creek Community…

MONDAY MATTERS Reflections to start the week Monday, September 22, 2014 Follow me Once upon a time, long, in a diocese far away, at a time before we relied on…

MONDAY MATTERS Reflections to start the week Monday, September 15, 2014 Day by day Got any daily rituals? Bet you do. Let me put a finer point on the question:…