Acts of Hope

The following essay appeared in the March 10, 1989 issue of the Catholic lay-edited magazine Commonweal under the title "When the Spiri...

I am spending far too much time on Facebook, much of it reading and disseminating articles on the new pope, Francis. More on him, with some ...

Today is the 9th anniversary of my formal reception into the Episcopal Church and the feast of Wulfstan of Worcester, about whom I wrote at ...

My open letter to Anne Rice , an essay on the church, its flaws, and why you can't be a Jesus-person alone in a corner, is up at the Ep...

I will put more details up tomorrow, since it is late and I am prepping for class. Yes, I have to teach on Labor Day, at 8:30 a.m. Meanwhile...

It's always like this: I pop in to say I'm not blogging and then I blog. I ordered John-Julian, OJN's translation of Julian of N...

I am headed for Boston tomorrow to visit the intrepid Parents of Acts of Hope , this time for a week, which means the stay won't be All...

A relational ontology * focuses on personhood, relationship, and communion as the modality of all existence. This secures for Christian the...

It's Laetare Sunday here in the Western liturgical churches and Mothering Sunday in the Church of England. My friend Rob (aka Padre Ro...

Last year's post on a small demonstration for peace. (Cross-posted a few minutes ago via a link on Facebook.) Two years ago: post on th...

Re: the post below and its many comments (read it and them first), it turns out I had posted a little piece of the Jaci Maraschin essay a li...

I want one of these (the full monastic edition) in the worst way. I think that part of what keeps me from praying the Daily Office when I d...

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, L...

Doxy's pal UT from Under the Overpasses has a new blog under his real name. Turns out he is Tim, an Episcopalian from Western North C...

No, she's not a rock star, * she is the Episcopal bishop mentioned below , and she addressed the Diocese of North Carolina Convention th...

It's that time of year again, as posts from my neighbor to the north, It's Margaret , attest. Diocesan Convention is this weekend in...

Who is he??? Wulfstan of Worcester is the saint of the day in our Episcopal calendar today, January 19. ( I know, this year the feast of ...

I just turned on "Talk of the Nation" on NPR and +Gene Robinson will be on the show. The lead was about the fact that his prayer d...

Post this widely, friends. Here is a YouTube of Bishop Gene Robinson's prayer yesterday at the Lincoln Memorial, with related reporting ...

I am just back from the book party for my friend Deidre's new book , held at St. Ambrose, Raleigh, a historically African American Episc...