The Rev. Dr. John Tamilio III  © 2022. All rights reserved. T.S. Eliot is not the only poet I love.  There are many others: Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Geoffrey Hill.  I especially love Anne Sexton. Sexton was a twentieth-century poet who lived in Newton and taught at Boston University.  Her poetry is amazing: […]

Dr. John Tamilio III © 2022. All rights reserved. I conducted a funeral the other day and at the graveside, after the committal, a friend of the deceased described him (twice) as a “God-fearing man.”  God fearing?  That is a term we use quite a bit — at least we used to — yet we […]

Dr. John Tamilio III © 2022. All rights reserved. Ten Samaritans. Ten foreigners. Ten people who have leprosy come to Jesus to be healed — and he heals them!  Nine of the ten of them go to the Jewish priests (as Jesus instructed them).  They did so presumably to offer the “proper” sacrifices of thanksgiving […]