Columbine, Again and Again
In memorium for those who lost their lives at Michigan State University, and to all who were wounded physically or emotionally, I’ve added the school to…
Read articleAfter Uvalde: The Court of the Innocent
The Court of the Innocent has lost faith in us: a rebuke from the gates of heaven. This is another meditation written in the sorrowful aftermath…
Read articleFor Survivors of School Shootings
This prayer is a response to three recent suicides. In the past week, Jeremy Richman, the father a first-grader killed in the Sandy Hook School shooting,…
Read articleA Dream of Columbine: Psalm of Protest 13
The massacre at Columbine High school took place more than 20 years ago. And still, we have school shooting after school shooting. This Psalm of Protest,…
Read articleOne is Everything
We’re surrounded by violence. Orlando. Nice. Tel Aviv. Pittsburgh. Innocents dead at the hand of terror. In Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France, an 84-year-old priest was murdered in his…
Read articleIn Memoriam: Sandy Hook
The seventh anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is today, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2017. Here are two prayers to mark…
Read articleMeditation on the Burial of a Young Child
This prayer is a response to the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It can be used as a private meditation or as part of a…
Read articleFor the Children of Newtown
There are no words. Yet we need them. Words of consolation. Words of prayer. This is an adaptation of “After a Deadly Rampage,” a general prayer…
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