There have been various rulings by the Supreme Court in the last few days. I agree with some of them, and I disagree with some of them. The one that has been getting the most discussion among Christians is the one on gay marriage. I have been reading several analyses. And, by analyses I do […]

Once in a while Christians get it very very right. The AME church in Charleston gave an excellent example this week of how to be a Christian and influence the nation. As we all know, the mother AME church suffered a terrible tragedy at the hands of a killer. There are many ways in which […]

This has been a rough week for the USA. The shootings in South Carolina have left us all shocked. I was talking to a young African-American, whom I supervise, and told him that I never thought that I would again see a church killing like the one that happened in Birmingham, AL back in August […]

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons […]

So, this past Sunday I ventured into the dangerous grounds of teen dating with the high school Sunday school class. Nowadays this is an area particularly fraught with peril because this is the Google / Twitter / Instagram / Snapchat generation. These are the people who think that they know more than they actually know. […]

Since late winter / early spring, I have been teaching the high school Sunday School class at the parish to which I am assigned. I have enjoyed it. At the same time, I have chosen to take a non-standard approach. So, we have discussed movies like: Divergent, Hunger Games, Twilight, The Hobbit, and Lord of […]

All of us are guilty of making contradictory statements. We try to avoid them (unless we are politicians), and try to correct ourselves when possible. However, increasingly, I am seeing contradictory statements that are clear enough that it should not be necessary to point out that they are contradictory statements. Worse, there is even a […]

This is a bit of a parallel piece to a post on Internetmonk called Conversations in the Great Hall. Let me start with the same quote from C.S. Lewis with which the other article started: I hope no reader will suppose that “mere” Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of […]

The comic above has a very accurate point when one character says, “In our haste to render each other in the worst possible way, we’re actually creating self-portraits.” We are at a particularly particularly frustrating-for-me time in the history of this country. We are not listening to each other. We are not using logic. We […]

As children many of us were taught to say our evening prayers. Often they were little short phrases, as befits a child learning to pray. And so we would say prayers like: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I shall die before I wake, I […]