The Episcopal Church publishes a reference tool called A Great Cloud of Witnesses (a title that recalls a particularly evocative verse taken from Hebrews 12:1) which provides a “calendar of optional commemorations” intended to suggest “the breadth of witness...
At this time last year, I was scheduled to go on a Holy Land pilgrimage with a group of Christian ministers in January of 2024. It was an all-expense-paid trip made possible through late parishioner Ted Harrison and one of the Masonic organizations to which...
"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...