By Father Casey The death of Pope Francis has hit me hard this week. I never met him, and I’m obviously not a member of his flock, yet his death feels like a personal loss. Since his

By Father Casey Palm Sunday is this weekend. Holy Week is upon us. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. I know December has laid claim to that title, at least in popular culture, but for

By Father Casey Last weekend we heard one of Jesus’ greatest parables, known as “The Prodigal Son.” Christians down through the ages have taken to calling it “the gospel within the gospel,” because it distills the whole

By Father Casey Last year the New York Times began a series they call the 10-Minute Challenge. In this age of shortening attention spans, when it feels harder and harder to stay focused on a single task

By Father Casey I grew up in the Episcopal Church. I was baptized as a baby at Christ Church in Temple, Texas, and that is the church where I was formed in the Christian faith. My parents

By Father Casey Christians didn’t always observe Lent. Back in the earliest days of the Church, in the first century or two after Jesus, there was no such thing as Lent. At that time, there were fasts