To Care and Not To Care
By Ian Olson
Lent is always a summoning out of the fertile Jordan Valley and into the wasteland, a wasteland, paradoxically, pregnant with promise. We are driven out of the lush surplus to the desert so as t... Read More...
Because I Do Not Hope to Turn Again
On Ash Wednesday
By Eugene R. Schlesinger
With my penchant for the melancholy, I’ve always resonated with what we might consider the “downer” moments of the liturgical year. The desolate waiting of Holy Sat... Read More...
From the Ashes We Will Rise: The Power of Ash Wednesday
By James Richardson
Ash Wednesday 2018 dawned like no other in my lifetime.
A few short months earlier, fires had raged through Sonoma, Napa, and Lake counties north of San Francisco, merging into what became known as the “Wine Country Fires” — and the d... Read More...
The Way of Love: Turn
Part of a series on The Way of Love. Other previous entries are available here.
By Charlie Clauss
Presiding Bishop Curry should be applauded for his work to bring the Episcopal Church the program, The Way... Read More...
Newman on Self-deception and Self-knowledge
The way truly to know ourselves is not idly to look within ourselves, but rather to look away from ourselves at the one who calls us by name, who commands us to love him by loving our neighbor, who sends us into the vineyard to work today.
Ashes to Go? Context and Rationale
Ashes to Go can be a useful evangelistic tool, assuming that the context of the gospel in the prayer book liturgy can be legitimately maintained.
Clergy: Don’t Apologize for Lent
We all need Lent more than we know.
Renewing the Art of Holy Dying
How might we encourage faith and trust in Christ in the final hour? How might we minister to bodies we believe will rise again? How might we convey the mercy of God to those whose strength is gone?