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The British Railways Lost Property Office was the place where travelers were usually able to retrieve overcoats, umbrellas or briefcases absent-mindedly left on station benches and carriage luggage racks. Indeed, it was quite normal in the distant, rather more honest, days of my youth for folks to turn in lost items rather than making . . . → Read More: Explaining the Anglican two finger typographical tradition 
Soon after Charlotte and I married, my mother-in-law revealed to me her secret for staying awake during long and boring sermons. “I leaf through the hymnal,” she said, “The composers of so many of the hymns are so much more eloquent than the preachers. Just take Isaac Watts.” Our former Associate Rector James Johnson would . . . → Read More: The remarkable life of the father of English hymnody The ugly tone of current political discourse is more than a little depressing. Indeed, to characterize today’s political exchanges as “debate” would be a travesty. Rarely does either side attempt to argue contrary points of view in a civilized manner. Rather, listeners are simply treated to a torrent of abuse, increasingly much of it scatological. . . . → Read More: Falling literacy and the sad state of political discourse Not so long ago a parishioner asked me: “What exactly do you do as Vicar General of the diocese?” The answer: Officially, I administer the diocese’s affairs in the absence of the bishop. And, indeed I had the opportunity to flex my quasi-episcopal muscle quite recently when Bishop Vaughan was on vacation in Ireland. However, . . . → Read More: I am the very model of a modern Vicar General 
My father—aka the Sage of Dedham Vale—maintained that the only way to be genuinely progressive was to be implacably opposed to progress. And the proof of this philosophical pudding is evident to all in the epidemic of functional illiteracy that afflicts our nation. In 1900, some 90 percent of the American population were able to . . . → Read More: Down home truths about learning to read and write 
The Hollywood stereotype of hero rarely holds true in real life. Whatever you might see in the movies, heroes are by no means invariably young, confident, and athletic. Sometimes they are old and wrinkly: Moses, for example, was nearly 80 years of age when God called him to lead the children of Israel out of . . . → Read More: There’s no such animal as a stereotypical hero 
The crime rate is a major American preoccupation. And this is hardly surprising in view of statistics that indicate one in every three of us can expect to become a victim of violent crime at least once in our lives. Our politicians’ response to this has been a stream of legislative measures—boot camps, “three strikes . . . → Read More: It’s time to let the Gospel take a bite out of crime
The King James translation of the 13th Chapter of the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians must rank among the most sublime pieces of literature in the English language. Even in those clunky modern translations, Paul’s words are so inspiring they are frequently read at weddings. That said, members of the Corinthian Church, . . . → Read More: From the sublime to the utterly terrifying
As God, the Bible and, in fact, any expression of Christianity are being unceremoniously driven out of our schools, colleges, and universities, evangelists of a entirely different brand of faith—Socialism—are moving in to proselytize America’s millennials. Socialism, of course, has been around for more than one and a half centuries, and, moreover, it has been . . . → Read More: Socialism: A world of big pots and atomic disasters
One of the vain superstitions of modern Christianity is a disbelief in angels. Cutting–edge protestants, particularly, write them off as the religious equivalent of fairies at the bottom of the garden—lumping them into the same category as gnomes, elves, and pixies. Folks who call themselves Christian but reject the existence of angels, however, have a . . . → Read More: Angels aren’t pixies and cherubs aren’t cherubim |
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