This coming weekend, my church, St. David’s Episcopal, is welcoming Frank Griswold, the immediate past Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, to lead a parish retreat, and Bishop Griswold asked me to lead a preview of the weekend during the adult formation time this past Sunday morning. His preference was that I talk about the […]
This week I’ve done a discussion and book signing, met with a pastoral education class, and done an hour-long interview on my new book on grief, Stories from the Edge, and, as we say in the business, I’ve got my stuff down, my game on, which might make it a good time to talk about […]
On Friday, I hiked the highest leg of the Appalachian Trail. The AT runs over two thousand miles from Georgia to Maine, and is the oldest scenic trail system in the United States. People have been hiking the Appalachian Trail—parts of it or even the whole length of it—for eighty years, and human beings have […]
It was Father’s Day 2006, my first 24 hours on-call as a hospital chaplain, and I called my dad to tell him I loved him as I drove to my first emergency, a heart attack at Seton Medical Center. I called him early in the afternoon, because although I didn’t know what to expect from […]
