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Bruce Robison

Not a Children’s Story

This is not a children’s story, though it is the story of a child, encountering and mastering every hard reality of our lives and of our world.

Not a Children’s Story

In the name of the One who is Emmanuel, God with us, the child whose birth we remember so richly this night, who sits...

But in Fact

Friends: Grace and peace to you, and joy — and all the riches of God’s favor, on this first morning of the world. Christ our...

God Keeps His Promises

On our church calendar there are several names for February 2. On the ancient, pre-Reformation calendar, today was the 40th and last day of...

For Armistice Day: A Memorial Reflection

By Bruce Robison Across the top of her bedroom bureau my grandmother had something of a prayer shrine: rows of carefully arranged photographs, the family...

Bishop McIlvaine and the evangelical heritage of the Episcopal Church

The fabric of McIlvaine’s life was richly textured, a compelling and encouraging reminder of the continuing story of evangelicalism in the Episcopal Church.

The seventeen days

Pre-Lent rolled in early this year. Septuagesima already past, at the Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Sexagesima as well, with Quinquagesima looming

Mission: foreign and domestic

When I was growing up in church in the 1950s and 1960s I would often hear about how our congregation was connected to the work of missionaries. Basically, the idea was that there were two kinds of places in the world: one, like ours, where most people were Christians, and the other, usually far away, where most people weren’t.

Rally Day ruminations: the problem with Sunday School

I think we've told Christian parents that it's not their job to be the teachers and spiritual leaders in their families.

Easter Communion

The poetry of Easter is so very rich — reaching out as far as we can reach in our limited vocabularies for a way to say what needs to be said.