Jon White – Page 80 – Episcopal Cafe

The Good Lord made them all

May 1, 2016 1 Comment

A story in which the chickens come home (or to church) to roost

The words on Liberty’s pedestal were always a hope, an almost eschatological vision of who we hoped to be and what we intended to be for the rest of the world…
Is this about our hypocrisy or about our becoming? Certainly the freedom we live is deeply incomplete so long as it doesn’t belong to all of us. Biblically and theologically, it’s also incomplete if “freedom” is simply opportunity for unhampered exercise of our own whim and protection of fiercely held opinions and judgments of others from any criticism or constraints.

Kneading our daily bread

May 1, 2016 No Comments

When I ask for “my daily bread” what is underneath my request of God in “The Lord’s Prayer” is not simply bread, but the kind of real honesty which bread implies. Give me integrity – a real thing being a real thing. Let me be real by knowing who I am, knowing what I want

Faith Reels: ‘A Hologram for the King’ … stranger in a strange land

April 29, 2016 1 Comment

This week’s review is the new Tom Hanks film, A Hologram for the King, where we discover the power of connection amidst differences.

Breaking through the stained-glass ceiling

April 28, 2016 9 Comments

If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired

Popping Collars #38: To him who sits on the throne

April 28, 2016 No Comments

Greg, Kyle, Lauren, and Patrick talk about the world of Game of Thrones. Do the politics and religions of Westeros share anything in common with our world and what happens when those concepts become linked in the pursuit of power?

Jacksonville cathedral all in on local redevelopment

April 28, 2016 No Comments

St. John’s Cathedral officials have tried for years to improve the district for residents, and they took the next step April 21 when leaders at the cornerstone Episcopal church voted to form a for-profit corporation solely focused on development in the Cathedral District.

place, holiness and loss

April 24, 2016 2 Comments

Yet, I also wonder whether this place-based holiness isn’t a bit like an analog watch, needing its spring to be wound again and again. Some places are probably so deeply imbued with spiritual energy that their unwinding might take centuries or millennia, the locations of Jesus’ life and death perhaps, or pilgrimage trails like the Camino de Santiago. But other places, like parish churches or summer camp chapels seem to need an ongoing encounter to sustain them or the thin place comes to be clouded and not so thin anymore.