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 The fashionable antipathy to the Christian faith is by no means solely confined to our “body politic,” the courts, our public schools, and the nation’s secular colleges and universities. It is also deeply embedded in many of America’s best-known charitable institutions. This sprang to mind when a friend told me he planned to designate . . . → Read More: Don’t let United Way politicize your giving The Veteran’s Administration might be trying to ban Jesus from its facilities, but God, being omnipresent, there’s no way to keep him out. However, even though God doesn’t need our help, it is our duty as Christians to help him. The best—and most effective—way for us to help the patients undergoing treatment in VA hospitals, . . . → Read More: Say a prayer for the patients at the VA . . . → Read More: The Tale of Father Aitch and the Archangel It’s especially important at this time of year for Christians to try their very best to show Christian charity towards the season’s Grinches. And by Grinches, I don’t just mean the people who elbow their way in front of you in the stores or cut you off on the Beltway. The Grinches I’m talking about . . . → Read More: The Grinch can’t really steal Christmas John the Baptist didn’t write a book—not even a slim one. Indeed, he left no written record of his life and ministry. All we know of him, we know from others. And among the most striking things they tell us about this messenger sent by God to prepare the way of the Messiah is that . . . → Read More: Getting it right the second time around The expression “Culture War” seems to be invoked incessantly these days to explain the root of every dispute in spheres as far apart as the Christian religion and Washington politics. Today’s “Culture War,” in fact, has precious little to do with culture. Far from it. Rather, the underlying causes of the conflicts are profound . . . → Read More: False messiahs and the Culture Warriors There’s something a bit odd about organizing a lavish feast to celebrate some mighty achievement and deliberately fail to invite the person who made it all happen. It wouldn’t just be a case of bad manners, it would also be utterly stupid. It would make the celebration completely pointless. Yet that today is exactly the . . . → Read More: Thanksgiving to God for the fruits of the earth Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot! I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! The English have recently celebrated what I calculate to be the 408th anniversary of the infamous Gunpowder Plot—a failed attempt to blow up the English Parliament during its State Opening ceremony. The plotters’ aim . . . → Read More: Explosions celebrate the “gunpowder plot” Next Year marks the 20th anniversary of the Dedication of St Stephen’s Church, and there is no better way to begin the celebrations than by honoring the people who brought the parish into being. By merest coincidence, next year will also mark the 25th anniversary of my arrival here as rector. At that time . . . → Read More: Come and join us as we celebrate our founders A famous English man of letters, reduced by the expense of his vices to writing for a popular tabloid, used to refer disparagingly to his readers as “people who move their lips when they read.” The implication, of course, was that folks who sound out the words they are reading are somehow less intelligent than . . . → Read More: Move your lips and help save the culture |
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