NCR Columns

There was a time when I never paid much attention to cards.

Nov. 6, the day after Election Day.

It's morning — a cold, dark, empty morning.

But it was never meant to be that way.

I'm a news freak and everybody knows it: News first, breakfast next. What's happening to Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Palenstine, etc. 

One thing I know: The words I will write here are either both too late — or will be forever alive.

The airways have been heavy with wisdom these days: Unfortunately, too late.

In Imam Jamal Rahman's Sacred Laughter of the Sufis, he tells a story that may have as much to teach us today as i

The word synodality has been around a year or so now and people are still asking what it really means — for them, of course.

From Where I Stand    NCRonline    2/15/2023

I'm sure I recognize the place. The question is what happened to it? 

From Where I Stand. January 19, 2023

Here's what's worrying me: When I wrote the "Prayer for Leadership" years ago, I was clearly quite immune to the idea that we might already be ru

From Where I Stand                   NCR Online                 09/15/22

From Where I Stand        NCR online         8/18/2022

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       FROM WHERE I STAND        NCR        April 28, 2022