"The Loneliness Epidemic and the Church" The experts tell us the nation is experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. When Cigna, the insurance company, conducted a poll in 2019, they discovered that 52% of Americans feel sometimes or always “alone.” To clarify...
Our Morning Prayer lectionary has been taking us through the Book of Esther. It’s a favorite of mine. The Jews are an exiled people and Esther is an orphaned cousin of Mordechai who has “adopted” her into his care. Well, that wasn’t much help when Esther was...
My last Sunday at Incarnation is just about one week away. When all is said and done, I'll have worked here almost exactly three years (I think, technically, three years and three days). It's a cliche, but it seems like both way shorter and way longer than...
I have a rather complicated relationship with technology. I spend a good part of an average week fighting with it. The rest of the time I spend absolutely relying on it for tasks important or trivial, and trying to imagine life without it, while – of course...
Over the past few weeks, in doing some reflection about the power of relationships, I ran into a set of statistics that floored me. Let me share a few. The Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago calculates that loneliness...