From the Ashes We Will Rise: The Power of Ash Wednesday Guest Contributor February 17, 2021 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By James Richardson Ash Wednesday 2018 dawned like no other in my lifetime. A few short months earlier, fires had raged through Sonoma, Napa, and Lake counties north of San Francisco, merging into what be... Read More...
The Way of Love: Turn Charlie Clauss February 17, 2021 Commentary, The Episcopal Church, The Way of Love Part of a series on The Way of Love. Other previous entries are available here. By Charlie Clauss Presiding Bishop Curry should be applauded for his work to bring the Episcopal Church the program, The Way... Read More...
Newman on Self-deception and Self-knowledge Mac Stewart July 25, 2019 Commentary, Contributors, The Episcopal Church The way truly to know ourselves is not idly to look within ourselves, but rather to look away from ourselves at the one who calls us by name, who commands us to love him by loving our neighbor, who sends us into the vineyard to work today.
Ashes to Go? Context and Rationale Fr. Matthew S.C. Olver March 5, 2019 Liturgy, The Episcopal Church Ashes to Go can be a useful evangelistic tool, assuming that the context of the gospel in the prayer book liturgy can be legitimately maintained.
Clergy: Don’t Apologize for Lent Benjamin Guyer March 5, 2019 Liturgy, The Episcopal Church We all need Lent more than we know.
Renewing the Art of Holy Dying Calvin Lane February 6, 2019 Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church How might we encourage faith and trust in Christ in the final hour? How might we minister to bodies we believe will rise again? How might we convey the mercy of God to those whose strength is gone?
On Love and Lent Guest Contributor February 14, 2018 Commentary Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday have one primary focus in common: love that comes from God.
Dementia strikes my younger brother Richard Kew January 12, 2018 Commentary Reason tells me that there is little more I could have done for Chris, yet remorse lingers.