Dear Friends,
This week I want to share with you a rare account of a Protestant
church wrestling concretely with whether or not to call an openly
…
I find myself deeply embarrassed today by the President of the United States. It is a new feeling. I do not pretend to be a Bush fan. I have …
Reading obituaries is a remarkably insightful
pastime. Each of us does it more and more as we grow
older. The obituary writer obviously cannot recall
all the twists and …
I hope my readers will pardon me for spending a
second week dealing with issues within my own
Episcopal Church. I do not do so out of some presumed
…
The headline in the Washington Post said:
“Episcopalians Reject Gay Hopefuls.” It was the
typical hype of the media. The story went on to say
that the Diocese of …
Separating fact from fantasy is not always easy. This
is especially so when the two are skillfully woven
together by a very competent novelist named Dan Brown
and then …
As I mentioned last week my lifetime study of the
five Easter narratives in the New Testament (I
Corinthians 15:1-58, Mark 16:1-8, Matthew 28, Luke 24
and John 20, 21, listed in …
Last week I shared with my readers the time in my life
when I devoted a semester at Cambridge University to
making sense, at least for me, out …
The biblical narratives purporting to tell the story
of Easter have always held a particular fascination
for me. As early as the summer of 1959 I gave a …
“Calculated sensationalism and scholarly complicity”
were the words Peter Steinfels of the New York Times
used to describe it. “Consciously misleading” were the
words applied to the story …