touch
When we sit with God, in the exposed silences of our day - that is, the intentional sitting, designed to connect us for whatever downloads are waiting - the pushing…
fasting
I respectfully decline to fast in Lent. I fast from time to time and God knows (literally) that some fasting for an overweight middle aged man is a good…
retreat
In the late afternoon, when the cathedral is dark - but the afternoon light is pushing in through the windows - the cathedral nave is a lovely place to sit…
spiritual health
As we finish up recruiting surveys for the Renewal Works Program, I hope the congregation can see the amazing opportunity which lays before it. Never has there been an…
the burn pile
Do you ever wonder what kind of life Jesus had? I do from time to time. If, as we say we believe, Jesus was entirely human as the God-person…
companionship in suffering
This image of Mary with the crucified Jesus hangs in the Common Room of the Cathedral and is often a reminder to me that our sufferings, diseases, betrayals and…
the sing about us
If one were to stand behind the altar in the cathedral's Saint Martin Chapel, face the reredos (the wall behind the altar) and look up…this is what one would…
death and life in friendship
In the shadow of the memorial markers in our lives which mark the graves of dead and dying relationships, there are always new blossoms forming. This set of tough…
water
Water pours and pours from our baptism and though our lives moistening, washing, soaking, soothing, cleaning. Walls of water pour over the flagstones of our lives reflecting God's light back…
swimming in prayer
The fountain in Dominick Park is one of my favorite features of the cathedral complex. The water flows and flows and flows like a curtain of hope and regeneration. Kai,…