Mar 14, 2024
Dear Friends, The three traditional practices for Lent are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. I want to talk about the first of the three – prayer. Each Sunday, the person leading the Prayers of the People references those on “the Trinity prayer list.” I thought...
Mar 7, 2024
Dear Friends, Since Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has so much going on, I’m not sure when he has time to sleep. Professor Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard...
Feb 29, 2024
Dear Friends, Spring training began this past week as baseball teams reported to Florida – the Grapefruit League – or Arizona – the Cactus League. Pitchers and catchers always show up first. Then the position players arrive, some of them grizzled veterans, some of...
Feb 22, 2024
Dear Friends, Late last Saturday afternoon, I drove from Columbus to Toledo following the Ordination & Consecration of the 10th Bishop of Southern Ohio. After two very full days – one of them converting the Short North Ballroom of the Greater Columbus Convention...
Feb 15, 2024
Dear Friends, One of the images for the season of Lent is wilderness. It’s easy to see why. According to the Gospels, Jesus spent forty days in the wilderness after his baptism by John in the Jordan River. The people of Israel spent forty years in the wilderness after...
