August 2013

  Last night I had friends over for dinner.  I had prepared a five course Thai dinner including dim sum, beef satay in lettuce wrap, a soup course  (which I…

During "the monastery years" as I have come to call them, we used to joke among the brothers about the steel mullions on the windows of our cell. The monks…

The Rood screen of the Cathedral is the wrought iron screen which separates the congregation from the high altar and is so called because the Saxon word for Cross was…

The sanctuary lights remain lit in the cathedral to represent the presence of Christ in the wine and bread nearby.  Fire has long had a place in churches and temples all…

  It is nearly impossible to underestimate how tired, grieving, regretful, even despairing people are when they walk into the church for worship. There is, of course, great joy and…

Friendship is the great stewardship frontier of our time.  So much would go well if we did friendship well.  It is interesting to me that we go back and forth…

  Blessing on our nest eggs - on that money which God has given to us as gift.  Blessing. Blessing on the possessions in our homes which delight us and…

  Among the vast carved arches and columns of the chapter seats around the high altar with their prophets and martyrs standing ready like a wooden army, there are two…

      Yours is the day, O God, yours also the night; you established the moon and the sun. You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you made…

"They are all going to die one day…help them with that." What does a preacher do when this is what rings in his ears as he stands before the evening…