Opinion

The Friday we dare to call Good

April 1, 2022

Those who wrote the four gospels did so because they were convinced that the three fleeting years of the public ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, ...

The work of attention: a Lenten discipline

April 1, 2022

“Not only does the love of God have attention for its substance; the love of our neighbour, which we know to be the same love, ...

St. Brigid spans pagan and Christian traditions

April 1, 2022

Book review: Brigid’s Mantle: A Celtic Dialogue Between Pagan and Christian by Lilly Weichberger & Kenneth McIntosh. Vestal, NY, Anamchara Books, 2015 Saint Brigid of ...

Celtic spirituality and the great injustices of our times

March 1, 2022

Book Review: Persistent Resistance: Calls for Justice from the Celtic Traditions: A Collection of Essays edited by Ellyn Sanna. Vestal, NY, Anamchara Books, 2019. Although Celtic ...

Living out the Sermon on the Mount

March 1, 2022

This past week, I finally got around to reading a letter of historic importance — lost for nearly 90 years and republished only last January. ...

‘Love is a many-splendored thing’

March 1, 2022

You may remember this as the title song in a long-ago movie of the same name. The stars, as we used to say, were William ...

Finding our place in a larger story

February 3, 2022

I play the role of lead actor in the story of my life, and even my nearest and dearest are but supporting actors. This claim ...

A place of love and safety

February 3, 2022

During the month of January, the lectionary worked its way through some of Paul’s first letters to the church in Corinth. We heard Paul remind ...

A costly discipleship

February 3, 2022

Convention Hall, Philadelphia, May 1984 The Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania celebrated its bicentennial in 1984. About 10,000 people gathered in Convention Hall in Philadelphia. I ...

A call to realign Christianity with Christ the revolutionary

January 1, 2022

Book Review: The Rebel Christ by Michael Coren. Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2021. The Rebel Christ is the latest book from long-time writer and broadcaster Michael ...

The epiphanies of life

January 1, 2022

Piano tuners have to hit single notes again and again. However, now and again they play a chord and you realize how infinitely richer a ...

Making time to think about place

January 1, 2022

Come January, we all get to thinking about the passing of time. We look back and look forward like the two-faced god, Janus, after whom ...

Humility and hope

January 1, 2022

“Liminality: A quality of ambiguity and disorientation that occurs in transitory situations and spaces, when a person or group of people is betwixt and between ...

God wishes us small

December 1, 2021

God must be huge, or at least, that’s what I thought when I was a child. I understood that God was all-powerful and knew all ...

Seeing Christmas through Herod’s eyes

December 1, 2021

Menacing danger sets the tone in Matthew’s telling of the Christmas story. Why? Might the danger inherent in the Messiah’s birth be worth remembering lest we forget it amidst the ...

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