I’ve got a favorite photograph hanging in my office. It shows a roadside sign on a rickety trailer, with letters you can move around like old movie theaters. The trailer…

Psalm 31:9-169 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;my eye is consumed with sorrow, and also my throat and my belly.10 For my life is wasted…

In the psalm we heard yesterday in church, reprinted above there’s a reference to the Negev, an area in the Holy Land between the more fertile northern region of Israel…

In 2015, the current occupant of the White House was asked whether he had ever asked God for forgiveness. He answered: “I am not sure I have. I just go…

Often, when people think of RenewalWorks, they envision the work we do consulting with individual Episcopal congregations around deepening a relationship with God and each other.  This work begins with…

Some years ago, at the weekly liturgy critique that took place with my family around Sunday lunch, my adolescent daughter made this observation. She noted that the liturgy that day…

The psalm we heard in church yesterday (reprinted above) includes this verse: “You speak in my heart and say seek my face. Thy face, Lord, will I seek.” In many…

I was in New York for Ash Wednesday. That morning, I walked by an Episcopal church where they were imposing ashes in front of the church, clergy standing on the…

Yesterday in church, the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, we heard the story of the Transfiguration. It’s an important story, heard a couple of times throughout the year. It’s an…

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. Or so the saying goes. In a season in which our country, our churches, even family gatherings are marked by division, a…