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Forgiveness and 9/11
This morning I was at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Rome, Georgia. What a day to make one’s first appearance as supply! But they were gracious and welcoming and I think we made some good worship! Of course, preaching on such a day as this, it is impossible (or possible, but cowardly) to…
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“What are you thinking?”
I just ran into a couple at an airport gift shop that were so quintessentially “the couple”. They were both fairly pretty people, traveling with an infant in the three-wheeled stroller. She was in line checking out: he was getting tired of maneuvering the stroller inside the shop. So he parked the little guy in…
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The Gut-Ball of Frustration
Phone interviews are different when you are at home most of the day. In the Episcopal Church, our process of discerning a call to ministry in a congregation has several steps. You put all of your info online, answering a bunch of questions. Then contact is made, either presbyter to congregation, presbyter to diocese, congregation…
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The federal budget is not the same as your family’s budget
Of course there is a lot that is the same. Both have income and expenses, set by annual budgets. Both are deeply affected by the stock market and other investments. In this simple way, we can all pretend we are in the same boat. But the truth is much different. First, unlike the average family,…
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“First, imagine this is bread…”
“…everybody got it? OK, because you’re never going to believe what else it is.” I found this picture online and that is the first thing that popped into my head. Jonny Baker, in his blog, directed his readers to an article in the Church of England Newspaper entitled “The Eucharist re-examined“. You’ll find the picture…
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a brief note on the oil crisis
I am feeling so much grief about the oil crisis–and I know I’m not the only one. My heart aches for the land… the people… the workers (from the rig and those cleaning up)… the entire ecosystem… the Creator and Life-Giver… and everyone directly and indirectly dependent on the Gulf of Mexico. And the question…
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8 Things the church could learn about itself from the NFL Draft
I love the NFL Draft. Anyone that has been around me in March and April over the last few years knows that I get pumped for this crazy ritual. I record the whole thing, try to follow along and keep track of where players go. I get into the lives of these guys and what…