Craig Loya

A Flood of Gentle Kindness When I was seven, I was hospitalized several times in a short period for a respiratory illness that was much more serious than I had any ability to appreciate at the time.

God’s persistent, gentle love will save the world.

It’s one of the reasons we all love you, Reverend Father, truly. Keep it coming. I’m always informed, inspired, and/or entertained. All three of those are holy things indeed.

3 Reminders in Hard Times Weekly Message to Clergy

3 Reminders for Leaders in Hard Times

God's Economics of Love Weekly Message to Diocesan Clergy

The Ten Commandments contrast Pharaoh’s economics of oppression with God’s economics of liberating, neighborly love. They are a manifesto for a new community of resistance against the ever present evils of empire, which seeks to own, exploit, and possess.

Witness, Resistance, and Absalom Jones God always acts in history by cultivating small, remnant communities of witness and resistance in the face of calamity, crisis, and horrendous evil.

I’ve started a Substack to share my weekly meesages to the diocese and clergy, as well as occasional meditations and sermons. Here’s this week’s message about Absom Jones, and forming communities of witness and resistance.

Everything has a way of coming back around. What seems unstoppable and inevitable never is.

—Jimmy Carter

Only four more “Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending” days until Christmas. Let us not squander them.

It was good to see you! I’m so grateful for your ministry on here and your presence in the diocese.

The Upside Down Kingdom of Jesus

Christ the King Sunday

As we find ourselves in a moment when Christian Nationalism—that abomination that equates the dominance of a racially narrow understanding of America with the kingdom of God—is again ascendant, this feast is as important as it has ever been.

The apocalyptic key that ends one church year and begins another reminds us that in a world that is falling apart, full of reasons to fear, God’s reign of love looks like disruption. The hope of new life emerges as the stones in which we previously trusted fall away.

Spent my morning in the same way.

That we are commanded to love our enemies is not a strategy to guarantee that all enmity can be overcome, it a reminder that for Christians our lives must be determined by our loves, not our hates.
—Stanley Hauwerwas
A Better Hope

“It is a terrible misunderstanding of the Gospel to think that it offers us salvation while relieving us of responsibility for the life of the world, for the sin and sorrow and pain with which our human life and that of our fellow men and women are so deeply interwoven.”

—Leslie Newbingen