Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)
Many decades ago, in a modest bungalow on a quiet street in a small Western North Carolina town, a baby took her first steps on Christmas Day. Or so my parents told me…
Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)
Many decades ago, in a modest bungalow on a quiet street in a small Western North Carolina town, a baby took her first steps on Christmas Day. Or so my parents told me…
Ephesians 3:14-21, John 6:1-21
One of my fondest childhood memories is of short trips to what was then a sleepy college town, Chapel Hill, in the summer with my parents and my brother Eddie. My father was then a high school principal…
John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about time. This is probably something we all do, although I fear the amount of time I spend thinking about time may be a bit excessive. Some of this thinking is necessary…
1 Samuel 3:1-20, John 1:43-51
It’s difficult to detect a common theme in the lectionary readings for a given Sunday, but today it’s not so difficult. The first lesson from First Samuel and the gospel reading each tell a story of a divine call from God…
Luke 2:1-14(15-20)
According to the St. Paul’s website and newsletter, Our Christmas Day Service is a quiet, contemplative service, a service of contemplation and Eucharist. At one level this is a way of saying to visitors that there will be no music, no organ, no instruments of any kind…
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
Beautiful Boy, Darling Boy is a song written by John Lennon for his son Sean. The lyrics contain the famous Lennon quote, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” These words are frequently on my mind these days…
John 20:19-31
In our April newsletter, George writes of Bishop Curry’s invitation to the Diocese to “Go Deep, Go Speak, Go Do” and of the invitation to all of us this Easter season to practice and discover our ability to go speak by sharing personal stories about matters of faith…
In his book of meditations titled, “The Hungering Dark,” Theologian Fredrick Buechner recalls sitting in a theater audience made up mostly of college students watching the Fellini film La Dolce Vita…
Luke 18:9-14
On a wall in my den at home there is a small bulletin board where I put things I don’t want to lose or I cannot think of anywhere else to place them. Things like appointment reminder cards and the schedule of clergy duties on Sunday morning that George sends out to us every few months…
Hebrews 11:29-12:2
One of the books I remember enjoying as a child sits on a bookshelf in my home today. It is called 100 Greatest Sports Heroes. Now this book is quite dated, as you can imagine, and the heroes listed in it sadly include only a very few women and only a very few African Americans. It purports to present men and women of achievement selected by sports writers from around the country from all of the popular sports of the day…