I teach. Some of you have taught. You know what happens when a teacher tells the students that there will be no test. Nothing. The book...

Perplexing as it may seem, people who self-identify as Christians, and we ourselves, can do terrible things. I know it comes as a shock.

This last month, one of my sons performed a recitation at school from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and it got me thinking (dangerous)....

In the spirit of Ash Wednesday, which we have not yet had opportunity to formally observe at New Temple, I offer the following meditation...

Life in the 21st century America has become a noisy circus. Media is of course partly to blame. Half a millennium ago, clergymen were...

Christians use this phrase “I am a child of God.” What does that even mean?

For it is in the stripping away of our mortal attachments that we come to learn dependence on the Immortal One.

Nonetheless, I remain constrained by the boundaries established by a community, a book, and a given natural order which I did not create.

Our commitment and sacrifice are of great worth in the eyes of God – even if the present world does not think so.

To all you mothers – whether you think you have succeeded, or failed... in Christ, you have overcome and you will overcome.

"I was saved when God rescued Sarai from Egypt; I was saved when God delivered David from Saul.”

"Jesus’s teaching should be our guide, not only for how we do our taxes, but for what we do with money in general."

the Church can not remain spiritually indifferent, ...it amounts to a suppression of our most basic confession: "Jesus is Lord."

"there is strength in weakness when it compels us to lean on God alone"

"he enables us to realize our purpose through the shedding of his blood and the impartation of his spirit"