Day: January 8, 2009

Tough times and a turn to God

Parishioners sometimes come up to the Rev. John Perris after Sunday worship and pull him aside.

“I need to have a conversation with you. I have started to cut back,” they’ll say. “Not everybody will tell me that they lost their job,” said Perris, pastor at St. James Episcopal Church on Valley Road. “But whether the economy is awful, or when there are other things happening, people are still coming to church.”

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Opinions on the opinion

They have claimed martyrdom without having suffered. They have claimed sacrifice without giving anything up and dispossession without any loss. They have claimed the past whilst being, very much, a product of their modern, consumerist culture. Now they have the opportunity to test their commitment to the principles they have … tried… to impose on the rest of the Anglican Communion.

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How should we respond to the poor?

There will always be people who do not fit into what society terms “normal.” I also know that the kingdom of God has most often been hidden among the “freaks and the misfits.” Today we in polite society would, like both of their families did, try to have Jesus and St. Francis committed and stabilized on medication.

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Pseudo-science from the Vatican

Even if one accepts the tortured logic of Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on birth control (which is widely disregarded by the faithful) it is still difficult to make sense of two recent Roman pronouncements on contraception. Especially the one about the dangers of female urine.

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Stars and dreams

The Magi and Joseph had angels and dreams and stars for guidance. We see that they made the right choices as we read their stories. We don’t usually have these angels and dreams and stars for guidance as we journey. Sometimes we don’t even have any choice in much of life.

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A life of friendship

Harriet Bedell, missionary and friend to the Seminole Indians of Florida, was born in Buffalo, New York on March 19, 1875. She was trained as a schoolteacher but was inspired several years later by an Episcopalian missionary who spoke at her church describing the many needs of missionary work.

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