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“The Fruits of Confinement” by St. Paul
A message from The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle: How many times in the past 12 months have we longed for a travel adventure or just an escape to some different world than the one we now inhabit? Many of us long for the ability to travel again and to live more freely. In preparation for […]
The “Politic of Despair”
A message from The Rev. Daniel Kline: On Sunday, March 31st in 1968, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the great saints of the 20th Century, delivered a sermon at The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. It would be the last Sunday sermon he preached before being martyred in Memphis at the […]
Baptism – the Christian’s Constitution
One wonders why churches need to have by-laws and nations need constitutions, until this week. Amendments and corrections to ancestral documents can illustrate both the wisdom of experience and the folly of human institutions. When we deify humans or our institutions with perfection and divine nature or authority, we are asking for trouble. Older wisdom, […]
In the Bleak Midwinter
The Medieval mystic, Julian of Norwich once imagined and described the infant Jesus holding a small brown hazelnut in his tiny hand – a symbol of future hope. She also had a vision about the whole of creation, as small as this tiny nut: “And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity […]
The Witnessing Church – masked Christians
The Walk with the Holy Family last Saturday was a very moving event for the 140 walkers, local shopkeepers and onlookers. We assembled at Christ Ascension Lutheran church and made our way up Germantown Avenue, stopping at stores, thanking the owners for helping raise funds for the Interfaith Hospitality Network and hearing staggering statistics about […]
