After Thanksgiving, my email inbox was inundated with emails from firms wanting me to shop, in the stores, on-line, Black Friday, Cyber Monday. Shop, shop, shop — until I drop, and my credit card balance soars to the stratosphere. The temptation is to buy all these wonderful bargains, so we,…
How is your spiritual life going? Occasionally I will ask someone that question. Half the time the response is what half the time I might give: the look of a deer in the headlights! Some people don’t want to deal with it at all; they toss the question aside with a quip. Others say they…
I read a review of a book called Faith at Home, by Wendy Claire Barrie. Barrie is an Episcopalian who is director for children and youth programs at Trinity Church, Wall Street. It sounded good enough that I purchased the book and kangarooed through it. It is a clear, practical book on something that most…
by Malcolm Guite This bread is light, dissolving, almost air, A little visitation on my tongue, A wafer-thin sensation, hardly there. This taste of wine is brief in flavour, flung A moment to the palate’s roof and fled. Even its aftertaste a memory. Yet this is how he comes. Through bread and wine Love chooses…
Dorothy Sayers is known for her detective stories, but she also wrote a wonderful set of radio plays on the life of Christ, The Man Born to be King* I reread parts of them this Holy Week. I was struck by her rendering of Herod Antipas, who sends Jesus back to Pilate, bored, and sighs:…
In the blink of an eye, those who hailed Jesus as Messiah turned on him and cried out “crucify him!” He wasn’t doing what they expected. He didn’t gather an army to overthrow the Romans. The Son of God did not meet their expectations. And what about now? We hail him as Messiah, yet do…
Just Supposing…. Tonight, you are at home, in the last hour before your bedtime. Suddenly, Jesus is there in your room visible, what would He say to you about your week? Each Sunday, we say that we believe that He will come again to judge the living and the dead in the Nicene Creed. …
