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Okay. So it is a bit on the cheesy side (did he just say 'cheesy'?), and you've heard things like it before (sure, but cheese....?), but I want to press the illustration almost to absurdity. Just to make a point. I know, it's still cheese, but even cheese has a point – especially if it's cut in a wedge. We celebrated the Feast of Epiphany a few weeks ago. Sometimes there is a “festival of lights” at the Feast that reminds us that Christ is the light of the world. Not just the

Aldous Huxley and George Orwell Neil Postman published a book in 1985 called Amusing Ourselves to Death. In the preface, Postman is comparing two darkly prophetic books: 1984  by George Orwell (1949), and Brave New World (1932), by Aldous Huxley. Since the year 1984 had passed, Postman noted that many Americans were congratulating themselves that a Big Brother state hadn't been established in our land. We hadn't gone the way of the Socialists or the Communists or the Fascists

Faith. What is it? I’ve been walking with Jesus for 35 years now (sometimes not so well) and I am still struggling to find better language to speak of this thing called the Christian life. Faith is certainly belief. It is trust. But it must be more. And it isn’t just “belief in” – read “intellectual assent to” – a set of theological statements written in a creed somewhere. That’s not personal, and one of the distinguishing characteristics of Christian life is the ability to h

One of my favorite Sunday comic strips from my early adult years was Berkeley Breathed's Outland . Featuring Steve, Bill the Cat, Opus the penguin and others. One particular strip stands out in my mind. Steve, Bill, and Opus are sitting in their underwear on their outdoor couch (don't ask me – that's just what they did) drinking beer and eating Hostess Ding-Dongs. Steve is reading the newspaper and smoking a cigarette. The headline on the newspaper front says something about

There is a Greek myth about a sculptor named Pygmalion. He was a gifted craftsman but he despised the local women because he found them to be petty and immoral. But one day, this bachelor stumbled upon the perfect piece of ivory, from which he carved what to him was the image of an ideal woman, a woman of exquisite beauty and grace. So enamored with his own handiwork was Pygmalion, that he dressed the statue in silken garments and adorned her with jewels and named her Galatea

“NOEL” BY J. R. R. TOLKIEN Grim was the world and grey last night: The moon and stars were fled, The hall was dark without song or light,...

Merry Christmas! I would love for each of you to be rested in God's merriment. Like the hilarious giver the apostle Paul spoke about. To see each of you possessed by the kind of unceasing, overflowing, practically-laughing-out-loud kind of joy that makes the world think you have just possibly lost your mind – but yet they're jealous. Like what happened in George Bailey's heart at the end of It's a Wonderful Life : the kind of joy that takes you from despair to delight even th

16th  President of the United States: 1861 ‐ 1865 Proclamation 118—Thanksgiving Day, 1864 October 20, 1864 By the President of the United...

The last thing anyone wants is a political post right now. This is not that, though it may get at some of that. But I do think we...

“ If any man serve me, let him follow me ; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father...

Mea culpa . I have sinned, by my own fault, and only by my own fault. I have given (mostly, almost entirely at times) free reign to my...

Various ways of speaking of our disordered existence have been used within the Christian tradition. Many of you have heard of the...

I was always told that I would love Africa, and it did not disappoint. What an amazing country! The people are absolutely beautiful. I...

The alien race, the San-Ti, scan all the available info they can access about our human civilizations and realize that they can use religion to motivate the less-intellectual humans into doing their bidding. They interact with such people as if they were god, and their followers call the San-Ti spokesperson “my Lord.” But those that follow “my Lord” serve only to kill scientists and hopefully prevent the human race from advancing beyond the technologies of the San-Ti and thus

I remember days at the hospital where I would go down to the birthing center and rejoice with a family and praise God for the birth of a new child, and then go up to ICU and be with a grieving family who was with a loved one who was within minutes of dying. You know the days. You get the call from the lawyer in the morning that you've been left an outrageously large sum of money by your eccentric aunt. And then you get the call from the doctor in the afternoon that you have s

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your...

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down. Ashes and dust. It's the stuff of Ash...

Some honest comments from those who struggle to believe might include such things as, “The miracles in the Bible are so fantastical as to be unbelievable.” “The resurrection didn’t happen, nor did the miracles. They are little more than fanciful stories. They don’t make sense when taken to be actual historical events.” I suppose much can be said here (and has been and may yet be), but the narrative of the Bible taken as a whole certainly displays an internal coherence, self-a

In our tradition, we have several hymns appropriate for singing during the Eucharistic feast, as we receive Christ in the Body and Blood....

Did you know that you are on mission? Your life, and my life, and every person’s life is bearing witness to what we believe to be...