On a bus, as a boy, a passage I had never learned rose up in me, whole: they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. It has walked with me ever since — and slowly it has taught me that waiting is not lying down. It is the hardest, most active thing there is. And the door we spend our lives waiting on may not open the way we imagine. It opens inward.
We have become so caught up in doing that we no longer return to being. Yet everything in life pulses — it goes out, and it comes in — and the coming in is not idleness but the way we are nourished. A reflection on presence, the rhythm we have lost, and the healing that is already within reach.
We keep a freedom that is still on the way. A reflection for Emancipation Day on the being and the becoming — on Sankofa and the gathering of the fragments, and on emancipation as a continuous work handed to us, and to be handed on.
A HIER Life roundtable engaging Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence and the human person. Theologians, historians, and clergy — with a voice from the machine itself — ask what it means to be human in an age that would reduce the person to data, and what slavery still has to teach us. An edited summary, with the full recording.
Many of us want to be fixed. Very few want to be healed. A reflection on the difference — and why healing, not just the fix, is the deeper invitation.
We have handed ourselves over — our bodies, our innocence, our learning, even our belonging to God — as though we were not already that. The work now is not to acquire, but to return. What we need to sow in our hearts is nothing: the seed is already there, and it is who we are. The power we are called back to is not power over, but power in — power in awakening to the fact that this journey is mine, and that it has a purpose. Not one handed to me, nor one my little self invents from the options down here, but one drawn from my very essence. And not one I come to by myself, but held.
Walking in the forest reminds us that the Earth is not simply the background to human life. It is a living field of relationship — holding us, grounding us, and teaching us to listen again. In returning to nature, we may begin to recover something essential within ourselves.
On a quiet holiday morning, stillness can feel like a gift. There is peace in the air. A sense of rest. A pause. And yet, even in that stillness, the heart remembers that in other parts of the world there is turmoil, fear, destruction, and loss of life. It is tempting to call ourselves blessed […]
Good Friday does not stand alone. It belongs to a deeper flow of love that carries us from the table to the cross and on toward resurrection. In these seven words from the cross, Jesus does not simply speak from suffering; he leaves signposts for the soul, showing us the way home through forgiveness, release, aloneness, discernment, growth, and surrender.
Do not let this Holy Week pass as mere ritual. Enter it. Remember yourself. And ask what it means, here and now, to be about the business of the Divine.