All Meditations
Thy Kingdom Come
posted on Jul 28, 2010Perry Smith, our Canon for Pastoral Care here at the Cathedral, is writing a memoir. This week, he gave me a draft of the first few chapters. And I was rivoted. Get ready for the publication of something terrific. I could not put it down.Perry's l...
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Cathedral Witness
posted on Jul 19, 2010Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Matthew 28:20 It is nearly five am American time and I have been up most of the night. I have just boarded the airplane on the way home from England, where the choir of our Cathedral is in resi...
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The Push for Independence
posted on Jul 4, 2010My father-in-law died eight years ago. He was a remarkable man, a Methodist Minister in Tennessee. He served as a University chaplain during the Civil Rights movement in Memphis. He spoke out on civil rights and his family was threatened numerous ...
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The Flesh and The Spirit
posted on Jul 2, 2010I stink at exercise. Every morning, I get up and my dog, Ella, who is just one and a half, is already itching to go. I rub my eyes and feel sorry for myself as I get ready to take her on a jog, or you might call it a slog. She pulls like crazy, ru...
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Exorcism and the Power of God
posted on Jun 21, 2010Only one person has ever asked me to perform an exorcism. It was at the blessing of the animals service in October. It was a cool fall afternoon in Wichita, Kansas. A man came up with his dog so that I could give his dog a blessing and a St. Franc...
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The Oil Spill and Our Emptiness
posted on Jun 14, 2010At night, I close my eyes and I can see the oil exploding out of the damaged pipeline. It comes to my mind in spare moments, when I am least expecting it. JD has taken to opening up his laptop at night and just staring at that live image. Oil infi...
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The Word of God Online?
posted on Jun 14, 2010The tomb of Helen Keller can be found on the grounds of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.Helen Keller, the famous scholar and writer, became deaf and blind after a terrible illness in early childhood. As a result, she grew up savage-like ...
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The Trinity
posted on May 30, 2010When I was about nine years old, I stood in the bathroom on the second floor of the house that I grew up in. I was looking in the mirror, and it hit me. I say “it” because I don't know how to describe the event that occurred. All of a sudden, ...
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Are We Scared?
posted on May 24, 2010I do not consider myself to be a superstitious person. But when I see a black cat cross my path, it does occur to me that the event is supposed to be bad luck. Or I used to think those thoughts, until Cocoa came to us.Cocoa is a black cat. He came...
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Saint Thomas
Saint Andrew
The Feast of All Saints
St. Michael and All Angels