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 The author of the Cookie Walk was John I. Kohler II, who, until shortly before his death in 1998, was the immensely talented “Peck’s Bad Boy” of the parish. He coined the name Cookie Walk soon after he assumed chairmanship of the Parish Life Committee—another term attributable to Jack. Actually, Jack’s enduring legacy to Saint . . . → Read More: Peck’s Bad Boy & The Cookie Walk 
The church as it appeared in 2001, before the enclosure of the front porch. Looking back on it, it seems little short of miraculous that such a small congregation could have raised the money to build a million dollar-plus church—and that is a million-plus in 1990 dollars, not in today’s sadly devalued specie. . . . → Read More: The talented team that raised the cash One of the more cynical axioms of the Law of Unintended Consequences is that any attempt to make things better can usually be relied upon to make things worse. A particularly cruel example of this took place in New York City’s Germantown some years ago when well-meaning neighbors attempted to help the daughter of a . . . → Read More: Privacy rules designed to defy common sense What a wonderful weekend it was—the Rededication of the parish church, the Setting Apart of two subdeacons, the Confirmation of four candidates, and the Ordination of two priests and a deacon! And it being St Stephen’s, celebrations would not have been complete without the two terrific parties. Congratulations go to our two new associate . . . → Read More: My thanks to you—from the bottom of my heart! St Stephen’s was founded by the Baltimore branch of the Prayer Book Society in 1982. It was a typically dogged Maryland response to an edict by the Episcopal Diocese banning the use of the 1928 edition of the Prayer Book and mandating by fiat the new book of 1979. The new book was not entirely . . . → Read More: How we came to be the way that we are Truth to tell, we arrived at St Stephen’s quite by accident. Indeed, we first visited the parish in 1988 when I served as a “supply priest,” on a spur of the moment request from Bishop Albion Knight, then its Episcopal overseer. Bishop Knight was the executive director of the now defunct Church Information Center, . . . → Read More: In the beginning, or how we came to Baltimore  The horrific campaign of slaughter in Iraq and Syria illustrates how wrong we have been to dub the conflict the West has been engaged in since September 11th, 2001, as “The War on Terror.” It is high time we called it what it really is: A war against Islamic extremism. “War on Terror” is . . . → Read More: It is time to call a spade a spade in the Mid East It is quite remarkable how television and the movies slyly and subtly reshape and remold our perception of historic events, even those we have lived through. I’m not so much talking about such major upheavals as the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis, and Vietnam War. Although, in reality, these were by no means entirely . . . → Read More: TV and the movies slyly and subtly distort history 
FROM CURMUDGEON CENTRAL I’m sorry. I can’t help myself. Black spots are clouding my vision … I’m feeling light headed and faintly sick … An attack of the dreaded curmudgeons is coming on … I’m powerless to resist … Reading Shakespeare—which, admittedly, involves the ordeal of putting down the iPhone and picking . . . → Read More: It’s time to send the Bard back to school
Mission work is an essential element of the Christian way of life, and churches today are devoting an enormous amount of time and energy to it. Individual Christians are increasingly committing themselves to “personal” ministries, offering their expertise to institutions that help the poor and underprivileged. But has anybody ever paused to consider why—in . . . → Read More: Why do churches miss the point on missions? |
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