This Sunday, Christians all over the world will observe the Feast of Pentecost, which people often call the Church's birthday. Our rea...

Much digital ink has been spilled recently on the revision of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer , particularly in the last twenty-four hours ...

Open thou, O Lord, my mouth to bless thy holy Name; cleanse also my heart from all vain, evil, and wandering thoughts; enlighten my unde...

Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comfo...

This past week, I received a very special gift in the mail. My maternal grandmother passed away last year, and so my mother and my aunt ha...

"This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes." Psalm 118:23 As many of you know, I say the 12:10 Mass every ...

On the first Sunday in Lent, I recited the Exhortation from the Book of Common Prayer to emphasize for the parish the penitential characte...

I am just back in the parish after having been on the road for a solid week, first at the Society of Catholic Priests annual meeting in De...

Last week's blog offered five reasons why Episcopal identity and practice are still relevant in a pluralistic, post-denominational, and ...

This Sunday, I will conduct the first in a series of four classes on the Episcopal Church, what are often known as "inquirers classes...

An audio recording of this sermon is available by clicking here. The letter to the Ephesians commands its hearers to, “put on the whole...

Vie de Jesus Mafa, The Transfiguration If "all politics are local," as the old adage goes, it's probably equally true that...