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.
Three poems for the end of Epiphany
At the far edge of our science
we aren’t looking so much at stars anymore
as at the older light
that was what the stars were before they were stars,
Good news in Advent
Jesus came for the people who know how it feels when you say "sin."
Searching for light: another word on TREC
Larger ecclesiastical structures are of course inevitable, but they aren’t of much interest until it’s clear what difference they make on the front line.