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5-Act Play
For those of us who love drama or the theater, plays always have parts in them, and those parts follow a particular sequence. Every drama...
Jul 115 min read


Holy Disruption
At our last Center for Spiritual Nourishment gathering, I talked about Holy Disruption under the broader subject of love and the cross. I...
Jun 275 min read


Wounds
I don’t remember the last time I had a serious wound, but if I look at my legs, I see marks of wounds that I have carried with me since...
Jun 205 min read


Self-Criticism
We can be hard on ourselves - most people, in fact, are hard on themselves, and those people take the gift of self-evaluation very...
Jun 65 min read


Yoda
Last week, I wrote about sharing additional thoughts on the recent Youth Sunday sermon given by our graduating youth members. One part of...
May 305 min read


Skittles
I don’t remember the last time I had Skittles, but a few days ago, someone gave me a sachet of Skittles. The person who gave it to me...
May 165 min read


Faith Of A Fisherman III
To educate our passions is to be human enough to be kind. And kindness in itself, like faith, is a mystery. The fact that we cannot...
Apr 256 min read


Faith Of A Fisherman II
To take any particular step of faith is to feel empowered by something larger than yourself, something bigger than who you are; it is to...
Apr 176 min read


Faith Of A Fisherman I
He said, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” So, they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in,...
Apr 115 min read


Let It Go
One of the challenging aspects of all our lives is the ability to let go or the grace to let go, especially when traumatic experiences...
Apr 44 min read


Chesterton's Fence
There’s always this confrontation with the eternal question, "Why should it be this way?" or, "Why is something (whatever it is) the way...
Mar 285 min read


Value In Being
I knew two of my grandparents as a kid. I grew up in my maternal grandfather’s house - that was where my mother lived, as well. I don’t...
Mar 215 min read


Being Woke IV
One of my many blessings here at Christ Church is the gift of hearing other parishioners tell their stories of a transforming faith....
Mar 145 min read


Being Woke III
I ended last week’s piece with the therapeutic nature of being woke. The opposite of being woke is being indifferent, and as far as I can...
Mar 75 min read


Being Woke II
"Being aware of what we can all be." I ended last week’s article with that thought - and I sincerely believe, that in spite of the often...
Mar 16 min read


Being Woke
For several years, we have read and heard about the radical woke policies and how destructive they have been to the welfare of the...
Feb 215 min read


We Choose The God In Us, Part Two
Over the past several days, we have all watched with dismay the kind of chaos and havoc being wreaked on federal agencies and employees....
Feb 145 min read


We Choose The God In Us, Part One
A few days ago, I chanced upon a new idea about the creation story in Genesis. I was blown by this particular idea because that was the...
Feb 73 min read


Burning Fires
Over the past couple of weeks, we have had to watch in horror as the greater Los Angeles area battled an uncontrollable fire powered by...
Jan 315 min read


Wrestling With God
Wrestling is one of the oldest forms of combat sport. It dates back thousands and thousands of years. Cave drawings of the sport...
Jan 244 min read


Weary Throat
The past week, I joined fellow Episcopalians at the Virginia Mae Center at the National Cathedral for a board meeting of the Gathering of...
Jan 175 min read


Newton's Law
I am one of those students who didn’t really like science. I will read any book except for a science textbook - not even science fiction....
Jan 104 min read
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