Just Over the Hill
One discovery quietly leads to another until you stop seeing a place simply as somewhere you live and begin seeing it as somewhere you belong.
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Category Journal
The Ghosts on My Dining Room Wall: Learning to Listen to the Puritans Again
The figures on my dining room wall and the pencil marks of an unknown reader reminded me that history is not silent. The past still speaks, if we are willing to listen.
Seven Sundays Between: The Second Cup
We spend so much time trying to smooth away the uneven places in our lives.
But perhaps the marks left behind by love, struggle, and time are not flaws at all.
Perhaps they are signs that life has been lived there. ☕
America, America, God Mend Thine Every Flaw
We stand on a threshold between those who entrusted this nation to us and those who will one day receive it from our hands. The question before us is not simply what kind of nation we have inherited. The deeper question is what kind of ancestors we are willing to become.
Bread, Wine, and the Streets: Why the Sacramental Life Must Shape Our Protest
But if our protest is not rooted deeply in prayer and grounded in the sacramental life of the Church, it risks becoming just another form of noise in an already angry and fractured world.
Held in the Fire, Kept in Grace
“Maybe the fire you’re walking through is not meant to destroy you, but to reveal how deeply grace can hold you.”
A Time for Ashes, Not Applause: Reclaiming the Meaning of National Repentance
To recast this day as a “jubilee” fundamentally misses the order of things. Biblically, a jubilee comes after true repentance and restoration. Celebration must be rooted in honesty about our failures; otherwise, the event risks becoming a spectacle rather than a transformation.
Blessed Among Us: Honoring the Sacred Strength of Women
Throughout Scripture, whenever God is preparing to change the world, very often a woman is already there.
When the Garden and the Sky Align: The Spirituality of the Flower Moon and the Promise of the Blue Moon
To live spiritually attentive in this season is to hold both truths together. Honor what blossoms without clinging. Stay open to what may come, even when we think we know the whole story.
Faith Beyond the Stage: A Call Away from Performative Religion
At its core, performative religion undermines faith’s true purpose, to transform.