Acts of Hope

  The Collect and Revised Common Lectionary readings for this First Sunday of Advent, Year B, are here . These are two excerpts (beginnin...

This essay was published nine years ago in the "Proclaiming Gospel  Justice" section of the late lamented magazine The Witness ...

Remember the question I asked here ? Well, we're on! Soelle in Summer: Challenge and Wonder   an online course-retreat   June ...

I don't as they put it believe in god but to him I cannot say no hard as I try take a look at him in the garden when his friends ran ...

As I noted in the previous post , which announ ced the Merton retreat , I have begun (since last year) to offer online courses and retreats...

Many of you have doubtless heard about the brouhaha about Elizabeth Johnson , Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, who...

Well, the Episcopal Church has transferred the feast of Stephen till tomorrow, today being a Sunday (you can't liturgically celebrate a ...

... I think back to France, where I lived when I was growing up. I had hoped to be there for these holidays, but for a variety of reasons I...

Web site or website? See here . There, that's settled. Or is it?

Thanks to Kirstin for this one! Baa, baa, bamba! Sing along bilingually! (+Maya Pavlova says thank you for el gatito.)

I am going to make this 10th healing Psalm last. Mostly because I have had a huge, long day and am cooking a little sniffle and want to tak...

P. is out of heart surgery and now begins the recovery, some of it short and some much longer. (The sternum takes a while to heal.) Modern ...

The snow has come, the snow has gone. The temperature went down to 9 degrees early in the week overnight and yesterday it was in the low 70...

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...

...is me, whirled into the Facebook vortex. I have succumbed.

This isn't really about John Updike, may he rest in peace, but about the descriptions of John Updike on the radio. I found myself yellin...

Click to enlarge. Salon has an interview with Berkeley Breathed , creator of Opus the Penguin and his band of friends, on why he's endi...

I have just returned from my travels. Blogging is still in slowdown mode for another two weeks, though I may post a bit during that time. Mi...

Blog flashback: Last year on this date... Academic writing (with a little assist from our friends Calvin and Hobbes) Grouchy (with a histo...