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 Many years ago, I overheard three distinguished and decidedly rotund bishops discussing the subject of sin. They ultimately decided that gluttony was their favorite. I find it hard to disagree with their assessment—albeit, thanks to heart surgery, I have recently (and, I hasten to add, quite involuntarily) joined the ranks of the trim and buff. . . . → Read More: Something fishy in the campaign against fat It has been more than seven years since I was appointed the diocesan archdeacon, but I must confess I still don’t feel entirely comfortable with being called “The Venerable,” the honorific that goes with the job. For starters, I am much too young for it. “The Venerable Guy P. Hawtin” has a certain ring to . . . → Read More: Arch demon or deacon—what’s in a name?  Folks familiar with Church history usually claim the first English Prayer Book is the First Prayer Book of King Edward VI, which was authorized for use in 1549. True, this wonderful book is the ancestor of all the Books of Common Prayer in use in the world of Anglicanism today—albeit a very distant one in . . . → Read More: Questions about the BCP you never had the courage to ask (Reprinted from St Stephen’s News, December 2009) Oscar Wilde famously declared that hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. And nowhere is the truth of his observation more evident than in our politically correct elite’s unceasing demands for America’s Christian majority to show “tolerance” towards religious minorities. What this means in . . . → Read More: A Lesson in Tolerance for “Ministers of Truth” This article was originally published in St. Stephen’s News in December of 2010. “What happened to the White Rabbit?” asked Wiley Hawks, intrigued by the ultimate fate of the large and handsome rabbit I had rescued from a neighbor’s Christmas dinner table. His interest had been sparked by a finely crafted antique English ferret cage . . . → Read More: Ferrets and the Fate of My Large White Rabbit This article was originally published in St. Stephen’s News in December of 2010. The Salvation Army’s Santas began ringing their bells three or four weeks ago, heralding not only the Saviors birth, but the start of the Christmas shopping season. And to be sure, recession or no recession, the malls have been as crowded as . . . → Read More: There’s Nothing “Bah! Humbug!” about Santa Soon after I arrived in the United States I came to the conclusion that the nation had long ceased to be guided and inspired by the principles laid down in The Bible. Instead, its animating philosophy seemed to be based on the fantasies derived from “The Wizard of Oz”. After all, diplomas and doctorates were . . . → Read More: Wishing upon a star is no substitute for reality Some 3,400 years ago or so, when the Children of Israel entered Canaan to possess the land that God had promised to them, they were united in a common bond of faith, universally accepted laws, and commonality of purpose. Their social vision, of course, was not of their own conceiving. It had been given to . . . → Read More: Today’s U.S. is just a bit too much like the Promised Land The exponential growth of Islam here in America comes as a tremendous shock to the average middle class Christian. This, to be sure, has always been a tolerant country. But above all it has been a Christian country. How is it, they ask, that this alien creed has so rapidly taken root? The answer would . . . → Read More: Too many churches abdicate their duty towards our cities A whole load of folks have got their knickers in a bunch about an announcement by a Harvard Divinity School professor that she has discovered an ancient Christian document that claims Jesus had a wife. However before we get round to completely rewriting Christ’s Gospel it is worth examining the source of the document—gleefully dubbed . . . → Read More: Jesus’ “wife” joins the battle of the sexes |
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