Suicide, Sin, and Grace
What does the Church have to offer in the face of increasing suicide rates and a rising mental health crisis?
Grief and the Presence of God
The desire, and lack of solution, for more attention to God continues to gnaw at the corners of my mind and heart. And then this past weekend, my dog died.
Pastoral care during a natural disaster
Natural disasters shake something loose inside of people. There is a brief window in which individuals and societies are pried open to the reality and life of God.
The gospel according to Rite I
Grace — that is what Rite I communicates. Its Comfortable Words confirm it.
Wilmer Woodfork’s hand of kindness
Wilmer bound my emotional wounds. He broadened my understanding of his world.
The double cure
Toplady's “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me” qualifies as one of the richest hymns, with its biblical allusions, soteriological vision, and complex history.
Gracious acceptance
Our post-Communion prayer affirms that we aren’t merely tolerated by God. No, we are graciously accepted.
The past no paradise: Returning to The Innocent Curate
I plead for the renewed reading of The Innocent Curate, as a general portrait of an Episcopal Church in the heyday of its mid-20th-century revival.