Acts of Hope

Text posted first on Facebook last night.   Brewer Fountain, Boston Common Two profoundly beautiful worship experiences today. ...

Lève-toi, réveille-toi d'entre les morts! Click photo to enlarge and see detail. See here and here for more from Kariye (Chora) in Ist...

The link to this map doesn't work, but I saved the image as a jpg. I am linking a Facebook post to this since the link is cranky and ref...

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...

A Californian acquaintance of mine by the name of Sistertech has written a truly brilliant, not to mention humorous and touching, book of p...

A follow-up on yesterday's post . From earlier in the 1985 interview with Beyers Naudé and Dorothee Sölle:   Naudé:   ... If...

C.F. Beyers Naudé and Dorothee Sölle , at the end of a long interview-conversation in 1985. (Published first in Dutch --the convers...

The Adorable Godson has a job!  Hurrah for him.  It didn't take long for him to find it.  He graduated with his second bachelor's de...

Andy, in the comments to the previous post, recommended this wonderful pdf-format slide show . It's actually a book available in exhibi...

In the process of working on Sunday's sermon, I looked back at last year's sermon for the First Sunday of Advent . The theme of mind...

At a peace gathering We’re not only ten thousand I said there are more of us here the dead of both wars are with us A journalist came ...

As promised in the post below . I believe in jesus christ who was right when he like each of us just another individual who couldn’t ...

The friend who keeps me posted on Deenie 's condition writes that Deenie is getting weaker and is in greater pain. She says that Hospice...

... and editing, in those rare summer moments of quiet and solitude of which I get so little during the year. Also mowing the lawn, griping ...

Friends of this blog will recognize (or see for the first time) the faces of some notorious bloggers. L to R: The not-so-blushing-but-quite-...

People are often tired and overwrought at this time in the spring. The resident feline bishop thus begs to remind you of her pastoral letter...

Read it . This sermon is the Sunday worship follow-up to this and this . I have two words in response: wow and amen. Music for the occasion...

Cecilia , about whom I posted an update two nights ago , has more news now about her coming out to her congregation . Things have gone well...

Here 's an update from Cecilia on her meeting . It went well! A little music for the occasion .

It seems, in this annus horribilis (yes, it has been, on and off, a horrible year, in academe and elsewhere, in largely unbloggable ways) ...