An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
For most of us, I suspect, there are moments when the existential questions of life can no longer be answered, ignored, or denied by focusing on our careers, jobs, marriages, families, acquisitions, or accomplishments. Who am I? What is my…
Read More Believing in the Giver of Life
I suspect that many parishes, priests, and lay persons may not consider spiritual formation as a means of or opportunity for outreach. Instead, parish outreach tends to focus on corporal needs such as hunger, homelessness, poverty, health care, visiting the…
Read More Spiritual Formation – The Missional Challenge and Future of the Church
How big is the church? That is, how are we to understand, determine, recognize and, perhaps more importantly, remain within that sphere, described by Lossky, in which union with God takes place? In a world and a Church that is…
Read More How Big is the Church?
Tobias Stanislas Haller, who blogs at In A Godward Direction, offers an insightful post entitled One Means One. I'm getting a tad annoyed at people talking about "organic unity" when they mean "institutional unity." When I say, in the words…
Read More The Church – An Atmosphere or Container?
Interrupting the Silence 