Unpredictable weather in our corner of Maryland makes it difficult to plan a Lenten Series. This year we studied the deep-seated Christian foundations that undergird our culture and constitution. The final part discussed the abandonment of those basic principles—a subject eloquently illustrated by an article published in the Washington Times newspaper by Everett Piper, president . . . → Read More: The high price of forsaking our Christian principles
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 The nation has rarely been so politically divided, and this, sadly, has once again rekindled debate over our obligations as Christians to pray for the men and women who pilot our ship of state. Indeed, many more liberally inclined churches today have ostentatiously abandoned praying for the President of the United States. Others merely pray . . . → Read More: Jesus commands we pray for politicians we despise Today’s rapid pace of technological advance has changed life in the parsonage just as radically as it has changed the secular workplace. And, as in the secular world, the most profound changes in the nature of parochial work have been wrought by the computer, the cell telephone, and the automobile. Computers have radically changed the . . . → Read More: Technological advance has radically changed ministry Love him or loathe him, President Ronald Reagan is remembered for his pithy observations about the state of the nation—and none, it turns out, more chillingly prescient than: “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” Judged by the cultural shambles in which we . . . → Read More: Christianity’s role in forging our Constitution and culture It should not come as a shock that so many of today’s young people are “snowflakes,” cowering in “safe spaces,” unable to cope with the realities of daily life. Just look at their heroes and heroines—narcissistic pop stars and self-absorbed movie actors and television personalities. There is very little laudable about such role models unless . . . → Read More: Goff Clark Cockran, Jr 1920 ✠ 2017 Shrove Tuesday pancake suppers are, for Episcopalians, the last vestige of the old Pre-Lenten carnival—the veritable orgy of eating, drinking, and merry-making that traditionally preceded the forty–day fast. Christians in many parts of Europe still observe the Pre-Lenten Carnival; none more so than the Germans who start the carnival season (called Fasching) well before Christmas . . . → Read More: Why not try to take up something for Lent? I’ve never quite grasped why politicians across the ideological spectrum routinely deploy the word “change” as a campaign slogan. You can get an idea of just how popular the notion of change is from the hoary old light bulb jokes. How many Marylanders, for example, does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: “Change!!!!!!!!!!!” . . . → Read More: With the Church, change is not as good as a rest Publishing house publicity departments never tire of trumpeting the fact that The Bible is world’s best selling book. But, truth to tell, it has been on the bestseller list ever since it first came out. Next time you visit a bookshop, stroll over to the Religious Section and take look at the different editions of . . . → Read More: The Bible: A great profit comes throughout the land When our children were young, they would routinely lament that we were much stingier and far less permissive than the parents of all their friends—not merely the parents of their closest friends but of their most casual acquaintances. To hear our kids tell it, their friends’ moms and dads not only would never have dreamed . . . → Read More: The decline and fall of the American neighborhood  We get so much spam in our e-mail it is hard to give the worthwhile stuff the attention it deserves. In any event, I was skimming the Fortnightly Newsletter of the Diocese of the Holy Cross recently and was much taken with a meditation on nicknames by The Rt. Rev. Paul Hewett SSC, the diocese’s . . . → Read More: Nicknames as terms of divine affection |
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