Fr. Dirk's Blog

First, dear ones, some words to think about, and not just in February: “In the African American experience, justice is something visceral; it is an ache, a groan, an inner…

Here’s Fr. Dirk’s homily from Thanksgiving Day: Gratitude is a tricky thing. People always want you to make a list of the things you’re grateful for, and you’re supposed to…

Literalists. Literalism. Literally. Someone who takes the Bible literally – sometimes literalists in this sense are called letterists, which is a nice word but doesn’t really help explain anything –…