Why give back to God? When? How much? I’m sure you’ve heard and read about how we are supposed to be giving people. While we may accept and agree with that, many of us have an inner dialogue that occurs when God asks us to give something. We wonder why God is asking us to  Read more …

A FORGIVING SPIRIT This Sunday’s gospel talks about the need for forgiveness, it talks about the reward of forgiveness, about the consequences of the lack of forgiveness. Forgiveness is something we all struggle with, have struggled with or will deal with at some point in our life. The difficulty lies in the understanding or the  Read more …

Christ the King of the Universe People often ask, what is the most important thing in a Christian’s life? The answer usually is God. This answer, though correct, is complex. But what does it mean when you or someone else says God is the most important thing (person) in my life? What do we mean  Read more …

The doctrine of apostolic succession—central to the Anglican-Catholic Church’s identity with the Church founded by Jesus in the first century—involves there being an unbroken line of bishops from the beginning of Christian history to the present. Christ conferred upon his apostles the original task of shepherding the earthly Church in his absence. As the Church  Read more …

Community Everything in Church, and everything pertaining to healthy Churches and evangelism is RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIONSHIPS. All things are relational – cultivating and sustaining healthy and loving relationships. Our time is centered on community. In general, people no longer go to church because of loyalty to a tradition or group. In fact, many do not  Read more …

The Banquet From this Sunday Gospel, the parable of the Banquet, we realize that Jesus knows all about empty places at the table, invitations refused, lack of interest in Him and His closeness. For us, in this nation, in this church body, the empty places at the Lord’s table, whether excusable or not, are no  Read more …

In the celebration of the Eucharist, the glorified Christ becomes present under the appearances of bread and wine in a way that is unique, a way that is uniquely suited to the Eucharist. In the Church’s traditional theological language, in the act of consecration during the Eucharist the “substance” of the bread and wine is  Read more …

How far would I go for a friend? There was a man, sick of the palsy, in the town that obviously needed the healing ministry of the Lord. While he could do nothing about it himself, his friends wanted to be sure the man received the touch he needed and carried him on a bed  Read more …

St Francis, a model for evangelism As is appropriate today on this wonderful feast, I want to talk to you about St. Francis of Assisi. But not the St. Francis who only sat passively in the woods with all the animals. I want to talk to you about the St. Francis who transformed the Church.  Read more …

Commenting on the often violent inhumanity of man to man, George Bernard Shaw in his play “Caesar and Cleopatra” sums things up this way: “And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood, and create a  Read more …