Lost Friends

While we were away in Nevada, one of the pillars of our parish passed away unexpectedly as a result of what should have been a minor injury. A man in his 80s, he took a bit of a fall and hit his head. He felt fine immediately after and thought nothing of it. [...]

Returned from Walkabout

We have returned home from our trip through the Nevada desert with the nominees for Bishop of the Diocese of Nevada and several members of that diocese’s search, transition, and standing committees.
It was a wonderful, exhilarating, exhausting, eye-opening experience.  Both my wife and I were born and grew up in Nevada, and it is both [...]

Episcopal Election Walkabout in Nevada

The author of this blog is one of six nominees for Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada. If you would like to follow the route of the Walkabout (the visits of the nominees with clergy and electors in various places around the diocese), you may do so at a blog maintained by a [...]

The Desert

We’ve been driving through the desert for a couple of days, visiting desert towns … I’m originally from the desert and this geography truly resonates with and for me. There is a stark beauty to the rocky land. Leon Morris in a commentary on the Book of Revelation, discussing St. John’s image of [...]

Bush Administration Bans Barth, Dulles, Niebuhr…. An Idea.

If you also think the policy reported by the New York Times is idiotic, why don’t you join me in writing to the Bureau of Prisons to protest it?
Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 First St., NW
Washington, DC 20534
Let them know what you think!

Bush Administration Bans Barth, Dulles, Niebuhr…. Idiotic!

The New York Times is reporting that the Bush administration has decided to limit the religious reading material available to inmates of federal prisons. Apparently afraid that some religious texts might foment terrorism, they have created “approved lists” of religious books. Says the Times:
The Bureau of Prisons said it relied on experts to [...]

Good Bye, Meg!

From the New York Times:
Madeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday in Connecticut. She was 88.  (Read the NY Times article here.)
Madeleine L’Engle was one of the truly great women of the last century, in my [...]

Radical (Political) Hospitality

September 2, 2007: Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Revised Common Lectionary (Proper 17, Year C): Sirach 10:12-18;
Psalm 112; Hebrews 13:1-8,15-16; St. Luke 14:1,7-14
Tony Campolo, an evangelical pastor and author, in his book The Kingdom of God Is a Party (May 1992) tells the story of being in Honolulu not yet adjusted to the time difference and [...]