A Sacred Cry This summer, I have visited more than 170 patients as a hospital chaplain. Throughout these encounters, I have witnessed a wide range of human emotions. I have noticed that uncertainty often makes people anxious, tense, worried, and, at times,...
Saint Paul, the Greatest Ancient Writer: Part 1 In 1986, the great literary critic Harold Bloom wrote an article published on the front page of The New York Times Book Review entitled “Freud, the Greatest Modern Writer.” In it, Bloom makes a very strong case...
“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy”* is truer to me this year than ever before. It was an unusually cold, snowy, icy and windy autumn and winter, so I looked forward to the summer since winter’s official start in December. Most comforting about the summer...
Many years ago on a rainy Sunday after attending a Communion service at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, I asked the celebrant, the Rev. William Johnson, Canon Theologian of the Cathedral, what the connection is between what God gives to us and...
“The Miracles of Jesus: How are we to understand them?” Recently, we’ve had a series of New Testament lectionary readings from Matthew at our Eucharists in Pentecost which has prompted me to reconsider the role of miracles in all of the gospel accounts. As...