Speaking to the Soul – Episcopal Cafe

The faith of Daniel

April 12, 2021 No Comments

We are children of God and, like Daniel, we also live in an imperial culture. What does our culture name us?

Oh, Boy, It’s Stewardship Again! Hide the Checkbook

October 30, 2017 1 Comment

I have a huge box marked “Stewardship” which contains, among other things, a bazillion schemes for encouraging giving. Some new, some forty years old. They all look the same.

Pilgrimage

October 16, 2017 No Comments

The world is full of inadvertent pilgrims. Millions fleeing the wars in the Middle East and Africa. Others forced to seek new places escaping fire, flood, starvation, pestilence, and enemies.

Shards? Or Mosaic?

October 9, 2017 No Comments

In this time of every day soul gutting news, can we still see ourselves as One Body, One Cup?

Speaking to the Soul: Failing at Faith

July 20, 2015 No Comments

In the gospel of Matthew 14: 22-32, the miracle is not that Jesus walks on water, but that Peter even tries. If you have ever

Speaking to the Soul: a living sacrifice

July 19, 2015 2 Comments

What is the unique feature of your seemingly defective spiritual anatomy (that might actually be your most beautiful gift to God), that you can place on the altar the next time you hear this bidding in the Offertory?

Speaking to the Soul: Learning from history

July 18, 2015 No Comments

Eventually he would write a book, A Brief Description of the Destruction of the Indies, describing the activities and tortures the natives had experienced at the hands of the Spanish. He wanted to create towns where natives and Spaniards could live side-by-side and with equality for both as a form of reparation.

Speaking to the Soul: Identity

July 17, 2015 1 Comment

The life of Saint Alexis of Rome invites us to examine identity in a new way. What do we identify with? How do we identify others? Is it by social status? Race? Gender? Or, might we learn to see beyond those things and realize that the beggar and the prince are the same?

Speaking to the Soul: Righteous Gentiles

July 16, 2015 3 Comments

The “Righteous Gentiles” invite us to look again at all those situations where we say to ourselves, “I think this is wrong but maybe the authorities know best. And besides, what can I do about it?”

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