Last week I toured the studio of an artist who is learning to weave. Woven items she’s already created are strikingly beautiful. Looking at the loom and hearing her talk about struggling to master its use, I realized how much…
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I moved to Chicago in June of 1976, subletting a room in an apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago, where I was enrolled in a Master of Arts in Teaching program. My best friend Eric came to…
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Between Ascension Day (May 25) and Pentecost (June 4), the Anglican Communion called for a ‘prayer initiative’, officially observed in more than eighty-five countries… not to mention by countless individuals. It was, on the surface, simple. Pray Thy Kingdom Come…
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The District of Columbia has reduced homelessness, including among the single homeless men and women we know best at Grace, in the last couple of years. A report on DC’s proposed budget for FY 2018, prepared by the Good Faith…
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In the well-known 13th chapter of his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul writes that love “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things”. The love Paul evokes in these words is child-like. Boundaries between self…
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Last week I heard astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson talk on the radio about dark matter and dark energy. Both, he said, have yielded to measurement, but neither has yielded to scientists’ attempts at imaginative re-construction. Yielding to measurement, dark matter…
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Church, we are taught, is not the building. Church is the faithful people: the people are the building. The Eastertide readings make this clear: let yourselves be built into a spiritual house (see 1 Peter 2:2 – 10, Easter V)….
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At our 150th anniversary community celebration, Bishop Mariann spoke of Grace Church as a refuge for the many who struggle to keep their heads above water amid the demands of life in the DC region. I thought of Freddy, and…
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In Exodus God proclaims an intention to “get glory over Pharaoh” by leading the children of Israel out of bondage under Pharaoh’s rule. A God who needs to “get glory”? We demur at this self-characterization, but we needn’t. God seeks…
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The text of a sermon preached by John Graham at the Easter Vigil, Saturday, April 15 at Christ Church, Georgetown. The Bible bears witness to the mighty works of the One whom Christian tradition calls “God the Father”. These works…
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