[Here’s the working beginning of a book I’ll be working on this year on Christian belief and practice. I welcome thoughts and comments.]
One doesn’t have to read the news (or watch it) too closely these days to begin thinking that something has gone badly wrong with Christianity. While long-established Protestant denominations like the Presbyterian, […]
I’m going to speak some hard words in the hope of speaking the truth. This topic deserves nothing less.
When Barack Obama gave his speech in Philadelphia on Tuesday about his relationship with his pastor, who had said some very hard things about America, Obama used a phrase that many younger people may not have placed: […]
A few quick words on the recent plight of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who has been raked over the coals by media and the man in the street in England–and in America as well–for a February speech in which he gave a typically nuanced lecture to specialists in the law about the relationship between […]
Last Saturday I led a Celtic retreat in honor of my parish’s patron saint, David of Wales. Right after we began with Morning Prayer, I had asked the rector of the church, David Boyd, to talk about the other David, and this he did, but not without pausing to address the sometimes-troublesome matter of saints […]
Last night, Martha and I watched the film Amazing Grace, and I was particularly struck by the similarities between the time it portrayed and our own time. I’ve written here recently about fear, and how it may cause us to “make bad decisions,” which I think was my parent-speak coming up. Let me be more […]
