For about the last six weeks I’ve been watching this retaining wall go up down the street from my house.
When I first started watching the process it was before a long weekend. I thought the project was to be a modest one to make a small (about 2 foot high) wall around a small flowerbed [...]
Is the final question in this video the one that the Church should be dealing with most?
Thanks to my colleague Rich Simpson for sending the video link and the provocative question??
How does the message of the Gospel compete with all the other demands that a massively transitional world throws at us? How do we imagine [...]
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September 10, 2008
I usually pride myself on at least having a fleeting acquaintance with the folks that we in the Episcopal Church remember in the common of Lesser Feasts and Fasts. These are folks ranging from Dietrich Bonhoeffer to C.S. Lewis and from Julian of Norwich to David Pendleton Oakerhater.
They are folks who have had [...]
I have to say that it’s taken me less than a week to become weary of the ‘conversation’ between the two major presidential party candidates. What disheartens me is the shrill character of what passes for dialogue on the real and pressing problems of the world we live in today. I don’t see a conversation, [...]
I’m more hopeful about politics than I’ve been in a long time. I pray that hope grow into fruitful dialogue.
My prayer is that this hope can be rewarded with a substantive discourse on ideas and not devolve into the politics of name-calling and fear. I want to say up front that I mean that in [...]
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