Remembering Life’s Journey By Daniel Martins I have not seen the movie Barbie, and most likely never will. But I have two daughters who, when they were of an age that girls tend to play with dolls, had multiple iterations of Barbie. M... Read More...
Dealing with the Detritus of General Convention, 2003 By Daniel Martins At the annual convention of the Diocese of San Joaquin in 2002, there were eight candidates for four clergy deputy positions to represent the diocese at the July 2003 General Convention of ... Read More...
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...
