Category Archives: Words!
Choosing Advent ‘Anois’
“O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence!” So opens the word of God on this Advent season, this new year of the church’s life. It opens with … Continue reading
Staying afloat amid information overload | Faith & Leadership
Staying afloat amid information overload | Faith & Leadership. If you interface with technology at work or home – and most of us certainly do in 2011 – this is well worth a read. In fact, the … Continue reading
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Heather Moffitt: Bodies and heresy | Faith & Leadership
Heather Moffitt: Bodies and heresy | Faith & Leadership.
A poem: Prospect
Prospect What is in Prospect after all? Acres and Miles of green grass trees whole and down Flowing waters moving sailboats in motion Waters linked to human destiny Open space historic building busts Of German men of music Games of … Continue reading
“Give me a drink”
Third Sunday in Lent Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 95; Roman 5:1-11; John 4:5-42 “Give me a drink.” ~ John 4:7 Martin Luther encouraged the preachers of his time that the best they could hope to do in opening the Word … Continue reading
Intertwined: the pain of Japan
- Editorial for the April issue of the Dominion, monthly of the Diocese of Long Island – As the Dominion goes to print, all of us all over the world throughout the past several days have been both transfixed and … Continue reading
Living Lent: a season of life
The season of Lent begins this year on Ash Wednesday, March 9. Depending on our family and faith backgrounds, we carry a variety of memories of Lents past: fasting from foods or favorite pursuits, giving up something for the season, … Continue reading
The Year Ahead
Reading and listening today on 1/1/11, I find both news of the individual resolutions for change of men and women around the nation and world, as well as a number of public predictions and wish-lists for the public world we … Continue reading
Robert Southwell. Poem. The Burning Babe.
Robert Southwell. Poem. The Burning Babe.. FROM St. Peter’s Complaint, 1595 THE BURNING BABE. By Robert Southwell As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow, Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow … Continue reading
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God and the Ocean
At the invitation of a wonderful parishioner of Grace Church, I spent the day today meeting the reality and the people of the Seamen’s Church Institute in Newark, New Jersey. The Institute was founded by the Episcopal Church to respond … Continue reading
