Happy Easter everyone! In the Gospel of John, Mary Magdalene was the first to arrive at the tomb nearly 2000 years ago. Because some of us have heard this story so many times there’s always a danger that the details become like wallpaper in someone’s home you’ve walked into a million times and you now…
That stone, hewn for mortal sadnessFrom the dust to dust returnedWaiting to entomb all gladnessLife eternally inurned. That stone, lit by day’s last sunlightWelcomed agony’s remainsTears that dimmed His Mother’s eyesightMingled with its life-blood stains. That stone held in death’s great conquestFor three days God’s vanquished Love.Hope with blood drained from his pierced chestFor salvation…
How are your table manners? What’s acceptable dinner conversation at your house? Generally, forboden topics are sex, politics, or religion, right? Apparently, they interfere with one’s digestion. Hard to do though, right? Growing up at mealtime, my father’s medical talk just about pushed my mother over the precipice. My dad would accept calls from the hospital or patients…
Oh my goodness! On the heels of St. Patricks’s Day, I find myself in the penultimate days of my sabbatical. This week finds me prepping for my last hurrah — a ten day pilgrimage to Scotland & England – for which I am very pumped! The tour starts in Edinburgh, then moves south to York,…
I had a religious experience. You’re supposed to have religious experiences on your sabbatical, right? Mine was not in a chapel or a church or on a mountaintop, mine was at Constitution Hall at a concert dedicated to the Goddess of Song – Joni Mitchell. My musical idol received the Library of Congress’s distinguished Gershwin…
Once upon a time, Emmanuel observed midday prayers with our Muslim brothers and sisters. Late January 2017, EEC reached out to MAS and they reached back. That is, Emmanuel Episcopal Church (post the initial infamous travel ban) reached out in friendship to the Muslim American Society Community Center. I called their office and left a message: “We are with…
When I first agreed to preach today, I thought, sure I can do a children’s homily for youth Sunday, I have taught kids for a long time. Then I remembered I had to do both services, which meant an adult message as well. With the children, we will talk about what Jesus means when He…
An Invitation to a Holy Lent Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the…
How many of you out there are Downton Abbey Fans — fans of the period piece BBC drama about the Crawley family? A very upstairs|downstairs kind of affair, it ran for six seasons and recently there was a movie! I am not sure I watched it all but I vividly recall a scene in the…
Who of a certain age does not remember the Jefferson Airplane (or was it Starship?) 1967 psychedelic anthem: Go Ask Alice? Inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll. To spark your memory, you can listen to the music. Lyrics quoted here in full. One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones…
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