This weekend we celebrate the Feast of Absalom Jones, on the anniversary of his death, which was on February 13, 1818. Absalom Jones is remembered because he founded the first black Episcopal congregation in 1794, and in 1802, was the first African-American...
This past Wednesday was the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, also known as Candlemas. Today we mark this feast with the blessing of candles to celebrate Jesus as the light of the world. Forty days after Christmas, Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the...
Dear Congregation, Last night, I had an experience I’ve not had in a very long time. A friend bought tickets to a Broadway show, an actual Broadway show, and we went to see “David Byrne’s American Utopia”. I had no idea what this was or what to expect. I was...
“The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.” These words from theologian Dietrich...
In a recent Gallup poll, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was named among the “Most Admired” people of the 20th century. In fact, he finished second only to Mother Teresa, and there was a substantial gap between the two of them and other contenders––like...