7/8: Power Belongs to God
Political power is both necessary and easily corrupted. Religious power is likewise a necessity and a constant danger.
7/1: Speaking of the Dead
There is but one opportunity to intone grace at the burial of the dead. What should a preacher do?
6/24: The Battle
Armed with nothing more than a sling and five smooth stones, “David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.”
6/17: Great and Small
Daily Devotional: “There is no accounting for Christ’s Church without constant recourse to the life and witness of those who were great in their generation.”
6/10: Being a Sinner
We cry out from the depths and find forgiveness and hope and steadfast love and redemption from all our iniquities (Ps. 130).
Avian Morning Prayer
Bishop Audrey Scanlan: “[T]he call of the birds — their first ‘words’ to the world — are what fill my senses and command my attention.”
6/3: Righteousness and Mercy
At the urging of Eli, Samuel returns to his rest ready to hear, if it may be, the voice of the Lord.
5/27: Afternoon Tea
Love has a source, an object, a sharing, even in the formal ceremony of tea and Latin and Eucharist.
5/20: Entirely Yours
The Spirit of God is breath upon the slain, life from the dead, dry bones connected by sinew, flesh upon bone, skin over flesh, and breath from the mouth of God to the lungs of humanity.
5/13: For Our Lives
Every Christian is chosen, called, summoned to a vocation and moment that no other person can fill.