Was Macbeth Right?
Macbeth cannot meet any morning with hope, so his mornings relentlessly arrive, cheerless and bleak.
The Pastor and Sober Humility
A rediscovery of humility is in order, if pastors are to maintain the mental, emotional, and spiritual health that allows them to continue faithfully in the ministry.
The Loss of the Past and the Strange Future
Voices of the Plains Cree by the Rev. Edward Ahenakew (1885-1961) is essential reading for Canadian seminarians.
The Next Church
If religion continues to church-it-up in pretense and inside baseball, we become like Gilbert and Sullivan operettas: great good stuff, beloved by an ever-shrinking, self-congratulating group of lovely people.
A Neglected Gem: The Sunday First Lessons in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer
Lectionary and liturgical change has largely emptied Anglican services of Old Testament readings.
We Believe All Myths Except the One That Is True
We take great delight in teaching and promulgating every possible myth but the one that is true.
Speaking of the Dead
I am disturbed that any Christian — among the laity or ordained — would demonize a newly departed Christian soul.
Waiting for the Light: Advent Reflections
Repentance is the word that best captures what our Advent preparation should be all about.