My Place or Yours?
This past week we’ve been reflecting together on who reveals God to us. Who manifests God’s divine presence to us in those epiphanic moments of encounter? Of course God can
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Hope x 72 = Church!
Yes class, today we solve for church! Yesterday I made a shocking claim, quoting Pastor Bill Hybels, that the local church is the Hope of the World. I qualify that
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The Twelve
God loves to surprise me. There are some life partners, some life legacies, some fellow pilgrims on life’s long and winding road we can anticipate, see and expect. There are
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Wing….Folk
In an odd twist, we won’t be focusing upon today’s Feast Day in the Episcopal Church’s saint calendar, but today’s observance proffers a great launching pad! Today we commemorate Timothy
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I Am Jesus
One week after the first church pillar, Peter, comes the other twin Christian tower. Today we mark the Conversion of Saint Paul the Tardy Apostle, Apostle to the Gentiles, and
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Repent and Believe
Today’s Third Sunday After the Epiphany readings are brief, compressed and summary in their liturgical form but epic in inference to our lives. Let’s take them in turn for our
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O Little Town
Not all saints inhabit distant antiquity. For Episcopalians, today is the Feast Day of Phillips Brooks, Priest, Bishop, Homilist and Hymnist. Brooks belongs to the 19th century, 1835-1893, a period
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Paraclete
Elemental. Raw. Energetic. God’s dynamic, energizing, and powerful presence, personal and palpable, whom scripture most often refers to as the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God or simply the Spirit.
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One Solitary life
Doctor James Allen Francis (1864-1928) penned perhaps the greatest summation of Jesus’ life in several hundred years. Allen was born one hundred years before me in Nova Scotia, called to
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Let Me Be Clear
Oh, gwwaaaddd…if I had a dime for every time in the last six months we’ve heard that statement from a slightly frowning, forehead creased in earnest yet empathetic head-slightly-cocked leaning
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