Of Canons and Hymns
By Daniel Martins
During my education at a decidedly non-liturgical Christian liberal arts college in the early 1970s, because I was a music major, I was required to learn the vocabulary associated with the ... Read More...
Lent Is Preparation for the Great Vigil of Easter
By Daniel Martins
While the season of Lent is multifaceted, it can never be fully or properly understood apart from its connection to the sacrament of baptism. Its deepest roots are in its role as a final pr... Read More...
He Shall Give His Angels Charge Over You
By Daniel Martins
All three of my children are alums of Sewanee: The University of the South. There’s a pious tradition on that “holy mountain” of tapping the roof of one’s vehicle upon exiting the gates of ... Read More...
To Touch the Face of God
By Daniel Martins
My parents were not particularly musical. Neither played an instrument, and the only organized singing they ever did was when my mother was in the church choir for a time. My father, who wa... Read More...
Inclusion, Particularity, and the People of God
By Daniel Martins
During the weeks preceding this past summer’s General Convention of the Episcopal Church, there was a significant amount of attention paid to a resolution that, had it been adopted, would h... Read More...
The Changes and Chances of This Life
By Daniel Martins
Be present, O merciful God, and protect us through the hours of this night, so that we who are wearied by the changes and chances of this life may rest in your eternal changelessness.
— The... Read More...
Thinking Outside the Box: A Pre-Christendom Intervention in the Communion Without Baptism Debate
By Daniel Martins
According to the materials that have been made available to bishops and deputies who will be in Baltimore this summer for the 80th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, there is yet a... Read More...
A Third Article Reflection
By Daniel Martins
Praying daily in the same form for years upon years is a repetitive endeavor that, in my case at least, invariably evokes boredom, spiritual dryness. Yet, with perseverance, even out of thi... Read More...