St. Isaac the Syrian, the Longing for God, and a Path Forty Years in the Making “What unfolds across these pages is one movement of desire—the heart awakening to wonder, being drawn beyond itself, and discovering that its deepest longing has always been for God.” There are books we write, and there are books that seem to have been writing themselves within us for years before we finally recognize them. Desire and Wonder belongs to the latter. I am very grateful to announce th

Surrendering the Histories We Can No Longer Carry “The fire itself will test what sort of work each one has done.” — 1 Corinthians 3:13 There are moments when the whole history of a life seems to gather itself into a single grief. The death of my friend Fr. Drew Morgan opened such a moment for me. I found myself grieving not only the man, but nearly forty years of shared history: the things we loved, the work we undertook, the hopes we carried, the wounds we inflicted and rec

“I have called you friends.” — John 15:15 There are some people whose place in our lives cannot be adequately described by the word friend. They were there too early. They remained too long. They entered too deeply into the making of the person we became. Fr. Drew Morgan was such a person in my life. I knew Drew for nearly forty years. He was my brother in the Oratory, my mentor, my benefactor, my friend, and at times one of the most difficult people for me to understand. Our