I believe humans are meaning-making creatures.

I believe our stories are worth remembering.

I believe the meek shall inherit the earth.

I believe the stewardship of mystery is a holy calling.

I believe in the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

I’m glad you’re here.

“This is Home”

For Araceli, home is a place where her family is safe. It's a place where her kids can be themselves. It's a place for making memories and sharing meals, where there's always room for one more.

I wrote and co-directed this short film with the cinematographer Daniel Pérez Robinson.

Over at Mockingbird, I wrote about my friend Augustine and what I’m learning from him about paying attention to my life—for the life of the world.

Featured Essay

  • Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

    Frederick Buechner

  • We are disastrously erring and rebellious, and irreducibly sacred. And God is mindful of us.

    Marilynne Robinson

  • La esperanza nos acompaña / Con ella nada nos puede detener / Yo de tu mano, tú de la mía / No hay nada que temer.

    Gaby Moreno

  • Faith has a lot to do with the simple fact that there are trustworthy lives to be seen.

    Rowan Williams

  • Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

    Marilyn McEntyre

  • You don't give people dignity, you affirm it.

    John M. Perkins

  • The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

    Eugene H. Peterson

  • Hay muchas cosas que sólo pueden ser vistas a través de los ojos que han llorado.

    Óscar Romero

  • God hears the cry of the oppressed before calling for our involvement. God makes the first move.

    Jayakumar Christian

  • Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

    Christian Wiman

  • You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

    Augustine

  • God does not take away our past; God gives it back to us—fragments gathered, stories reconfigured, selves truly redeemed, people forever reconciled.

    Miroslav Volf

  • There is a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in.

    Leonard Cohen

  • Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?

    Claire Keegan

  • Every lament is a love-song.

    Nicholas Wolterstorff

  • It's love that keeps the world alive / Beyond hate's genius to contrive.

    Wendell Berry