In the early morning hours of November 5th in Springfield, MA a nearly completed building burned to the ground. Not so remarkable in and of itself. Buildings burn regularly. What’s remarkable about this building and this date is in the details as is the devil, or so they say. The Springfield Republican reported the events [...]
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I have purposely given myself a few days to process the spectacle that was President Obama’s inauguration.
It seems to me it would be easy to point out what was dissonant for me. I will say this however. I was told by my liturgy professor that when doing either a wedding or a funeral where there [...]
Given Pope Benedict XVI’s thoughts of possibly moving the Peace in the Roman liturgy and Anglican resistance (even now) to this most ancient practice, I offer you this lighthearted look at loving one’s neighbor at worship, for better or worse. Peace be with you!
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From time to time I’m fortunate to receive advanced reader copies of books from publishers. In the fall I received a copy of The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight (find his excellent blog here http://blog.beliefnet.com/jesuscreed) a professor at North Park University in suburban Chicago. I was very happy to find it in my mailbox at [...]
The world often tells us that in order to keep from making waves we would do well to GO ALONG, TO GET ALONG. Today, January 13th is the Feast Day of Hilary of Poitiers and early father of the Church and a central figure in the struggle against Arianism and one who refused to heed [...]
