There are certain things only God can do. “Who can make straight what God has made crooked?”, asks the Preacher in Ecclesiastes. Straightening things out is God’s business, not ours. There are exceptions, of course. We cut highways through the…
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More than 30 years ago I heard the Rt. Rev. Kenneth Cragg, then Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, speak at the National Cathedral. He said that God has called the three faiths for which Jerusalem is holy – Christianity, Judaism and…
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I know lots of immigrants, many from Latin America, and their deep affection for their countries of origin has moved me. It’s not so much the people who have a hold on their sentiments – people everywhere are mixed blessings…
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I’m participating in a Stephen Ministry training in Pittsburgh. On Monday night fellow trainee John Seferian and I went to PNC Field to watch the Pirates play the Diamondbacks. The game wasn’t close, and allowed plenty of time and space…
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It started on Sunday, June 21, the summer solstice. At the 8:30 Eucharist that morning, light from the stained glass window behind the altar landed directly on the chalice and paten prepared for blessing…blue, and red, and a hint of…
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On the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah appear and talk with Jesus. The conversation is very brief; it’s barely begun when a cloud overshadows Jesus, the voice of the Almighty declares him “my beloved Son”, and Moses and Elijah…
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Warren Zevon presided over the “quirky” corner of the rock-and-roll world in the ’80s and ’90s. Werewolves of London, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner: all masterpieces for me and others who loved his takes, simultaneously dark, mordant, hilarious and…
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This past Saturday, Nelson Mandela’s birthday, Grace’s Table hosted a diocesan “Mandela Day” event. Members of the diocesan Southern Africa Partnership worked with Grace members and friends to prepare and serve lunch, and we gave over our Bible study time…
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Last week, with a houseguest who had lived many years in Cameroon and Burundi, I visited the National Museum of African Art to see the exhibit The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists. It was an…
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Grace’s Table is a fellowship that provides and shares a meal at 11:30 am on Saturdays for persons who are homeless or on the margins of being homeless. Visit Grace in Action to learn more about this important ministry. Summer…
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