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9 mins read|06/17/20We consider the year 1999 and the death of Cardinal George Basil Hume. The reading is an excerpt from Robert F. Capon's "Between Noon and Three."
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10 mins read|06/16/20We remember the 1548 and the beginning of the Adiaphoristic controversy. The reading is from English poet and priest John Marckant, “The Lamentation.”
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14 mins read|06/15/20When the direction of preaching is dictated by the hashtag issues of the day, the pulpit becomes the perpetual servant of CNN and Fox News. The news and social media cycle, with its chameleonic alterations from this all-important issue (this week) to that next-all-important issue (next week), does not create a rhythmic dance for the church but a sort of frenzied whack-a-mole worship. Now smack your homiletical hand down on this…now that…now this…now that. We need something better.
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9 mins read|06/15/20We remember the year 1686 when King's Chapel was erected in Boston. The reading is from American Puritan Michael Wigglesworth, "To The Christian Reader."
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9 mins read|06/14/20We consider the year 1966 and the “Notification regarding the abolition of the Index of books." The reading is an excerpt from “the Crucified God” by Jurgen Moltmann.
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10 mins read|06/13/20We consider the year 293 and the martyrdom of St. Aquilina. The reading is a quatrain from William Blake's, "The Grey Monk."
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10 mins read|06/12/20We remember the year 1819 and the birth of poet and priest Charles Kingsley Jr. The reading is "Easter Week" by Charles Kingsley.
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9 mins read|06/11/20We remember the year 1292 and the death of Roger Bacon. The reading is a stanza from “Thee we adore, O hidden Savior” by Thomas Aquinas.
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11 mins read|06/10/20We remember the year 1930 and the death of theologian Adolf Von Harnack. The reading is from Frederick Buechner's "The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction."
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10 mins read|06/09/20We remember the year 1732 and the charter of the colony of Georgia. The reading is "Hope" from the Kilmarnock Reader of 1820.
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4 mins read|06/08/20Silence is an important and valuable tool for change and empathy, self-reflection, and learning.
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11 mins read|06/08/20We remember the year 1896 and the death of Jacques Berthieu. The reading is a stanza from the hymn, "Rock of Ages."
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