The Archive
Year: 2014
Keeping Advent
While the rest of the world lights up for the mid-winter season’s crazy blend of commercialism, festival and cultural Christianity, most of our Episcopal Church’s remain externally dark, unadorned, and preciously uncontaminated by the happy secularism all around us. But why?
The “historic” climate deal
There is general agreement that the climate change deal between the U.S. and China is “historic”. Consider the headlines: From CNN’s “US and China reach
Sports, and the separation of church and fate
Phil Mushnick writes in his New York Post article that he wants football coaches, and other sporting types, to stop trivializing religion:
Former Bethlehem bishop Mark Dyer dies at 84
The Rt. Rev. James Michael Mark Dyer, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem from 1982 to 1995, died Nov. 11 after battling multiple myeloma
Veteran Friendly Congregations supports returning servicemen
Episcopal News Service story By Jim Goodson (excerpt): The Brotherhood of St. Andrew is drawing on its rich history of supporting servicemen and women by
Traveling Mercies
The autumn gusts produced by an advancing cold front are literally turning the trees outside of my home into woodwinds. Flute and oboe tones rustle
20 questions to see if your priest is any good
Derek Penwell on
How is your church remembering Veterans Day?
Today is Veterans Day in the US, Remembrance Day or Armistice Day elsewhere, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
Muslim prayer services to be held at Washington National Cathedral
The Washington National Cathedral will host Muslim prayer service on Friday. The service, which will begin around 12:20 and is for invited guests only. From