Monday, November 2, 2026 Happy Monday, my friends! Yesterday was All Saints Day and today is All Souls Day. The author of the Letter to the Hebrews tells us, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross,...

Monday, October 26, 2026 Happy Monday, my friends! If you’ve been following Monday Moments for a while, you’ve probably read about my personal coming out day and my annual celebrations. The LGBTQIA+ community, at least in the United States, celebrates National Coming Out Day on October 11 each year. In addition to that day, I mark the approximate date I came out as October 25. I know I came out in the fall of 2007 when I was a sophomore at Sewanee, but I can’t pinpoint the exact date. There’s...

Monday, October 19, 2026 Happy Monday, my friends! I’ve noticed this year how many of my friends refer to the two or three weeks on either side of Halloween as “spooky season.” Admittedly, these are friends who enjoy the autumnal decorating and baking and costume parts of Halloween more than the prime horror-movie watching, season-changing, thin-place producing, sweater-wearing aspects of the season. I, however, am in the latter camp. Fall is the season of the starkest and often quickest...