Captain Reverend Mother

  • On Men, Male, and Masculinity

    Where—in our wider culture—is the space for men to own their vulnerabilities, to own their feelings of anxiety, fear, grief, and loss?

  • Delivering Our Children: A Mothers’ Day Reflection

    …behind our individual families are infinitely larger forms of connectedness and belonging

  • Remembering Pop

    Eulogy for my father, Lester “Les” Eugene Kane (July 1, 1934 – January 15, 2015). Originally delivered on Saturday 07 February 2015 at Glueckert Funeral Home, Arlington Heights, IL. My father was hard-working yet easy-going, soft-spoken and an impeccable dresser, fastidious, witty, and handsome. He was born in 1934 in Fairfield, Iowa, the…

  • The “Stuff” of Life

    January is always a time for taking stock, but this year, the personal pull to reflect has ramped up to the power of a starship-worthy tractor beam. I entered 2015 with the news that I was carrying my second child, due in August, a sibling to my four-year-old child. Then,…

  • Pearl Harbor Remembrance Prayer

    Delivered on Sunday 07 December 2014 at the USS Arizona Memorial on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. God whom each of us knows in our own way yet similarly in our hearts: We gather today in remembrance of an infamous day and the…

  • Veteran’s Day 2014

    Q&A with Harvard Divinity School (unedited) Thursday 06 November 2014 HDS:  First, a quick logistical item: Have you been serving as a Navy Chaplain since graduating in 1996? I was scheduled to attend Naval Chaplaincy School in June 1996, directly upon graduating HDS. Those plans were scuttled by a scene…