What Are We Exalting When We Exalt the Cross?
We lift it high so that we can see it, but we must resist the temptation to climb upon it and make it a throne.
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Tag Spirituality
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. ☕
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.”
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.
Between the Sword and the Cross: A Reflection on Just War in an Age of Political Fury
As a Church leader, I must be clear. When political leaders speak of annihilation, claim divine sanction for violence, or dismiss the Church’s moral voice, they step outside the bounds of Church teaching and basic human decency.
Salt, Light, and the Courage to Speak
In times of uncertainty, the Church is called not to withdraw from the world but to stand within it as a witness to hope. We are called to be people who protect the vulnerable, who speak truth with love, and who shine with the quiet but persistent light of Christ.
A True Pro-Life Ethic Includes the Poor, the Prisoner, the Immigrant
Christian faith does not call us to protect only biological origins. It calls us to honor life as relational (existing in connection with others), social (formed in community), historical (shaped over time), and moral (involving right and wrong actions)—a reality sustained not only by birth but also by justice, compassion, and community.