Dear Friends, It’s Labor Day weekend. You’re going to have people tell you that it’s the end of summer, but don’t believe them. The actual first day of fall isn’t until September 22, and even then, Ohio usually offers a number of pleasantly warm days in early October....
Dear Friends, Every Episcopal parish I’ve known has its “high holy days.” I’m not talking about Christmas and Easter. Those are the church’s high holy days. I’m talking about the days that, for a variety of local reasons, a parish observes in some special way. Let me...
Dear Friends, On Wednesday of this week, our son, Peter, sent photos of his sons on their first day of school. Edward and Sammy started sixth and third grades respectively in the Worthington City School District located just north of Columbus. Their cousins – also our...
Dear Friends, Over the past year, there has been an ongoing conversation about how we can care for our children here at Trinity when it comes to spiritual formation. This is something close to my heart, and it is not because I have a kid here. When I first started...
Dear Friends, The weekend essay by David Owen, in this week’s New Yorker magazine is all about porches. Its title, which is itself long enough to be considered an essay is “Inside Out: The magical in-betweenness – and surprising epidemiological history – of the...
