April 9, 2021

Icons with Colored Pencils

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 As some of you know, I have been spending much of Coronatide in drawing what I call “quick icons” of the saints on the Calendar of The Epis...
October 9, 2020

Of “Revision” of Marriage Rites

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The debate over whether the proposed marriage rites authorized under Resolution B012 of the 2018 General Convention constitute “a revision o...
September 21, 2020

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, a Symphonic Poem

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This is a Symphonic Poem, based on the poetic elegy by Walt Whitman, this is the first movement of a projected work based on several key ...
July 21, 2020

Pastoral Care in the Time of Pandemic

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One of the key elements of the ministry of pastoral care is presence: being present to and with the one to whom one relates as a pastor. So ...
May 5, 2020

A Prayer for Communion with Christ

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Because of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, most Episcopal parishes have been unable to hold public worship, though many are live-streamin...
April 6, 2020

On being alone

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When Wesley taught that there is no such thing as a solitary Christian he was emphasizing his belief in a particular kind of realized eccles...
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March 25, 2020

The Broken Body

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The Holy Eucharist is about the assembled people of God, but it is not only  about the assembly. For while it is true, as the Didache  p...
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January 20, 2020

Sickness unto Death

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Parts of the church are experiencing a kind of autoimmune disease in which the body attacks itself. Such conditions are always painful, and ...
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September 16, 2019

Half Empty

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St Luke’s Philadelphia • Sept 15 2019 RCL1: Jer 4:11-12,22-28; Ps 14; 1Tim 1:12-17; Lk 15:1-10 For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall ...
September 8, 2019

Beyond the Call of Duty

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Church of the Advent, Federal Hill • Proper 18c 2019 Though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do your duty, yet I would rather a...
August 4, 2019

New Selves

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Proper 13c • Church of the Advent Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth ...✠ A wise old bishop once del...
July 28, 2019

Debt Forgiveness

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Church of the Advent, Federal Hill • Proper 12c Jesus said, Forgive us our sins, for we forgive everyone indebted to us… A key biblical the...