When your mother is 94, as mine is, Mother's Day takes on added importance. How many more such days can one reasonably expect? It is not a religious holiday, though in the South of my youth it had a religious feel about it. Southern mothers, after all, are epic, living long after they are dead. ...
Madonna is not generally one to whom I turn for inspiration. I am speaking of Madonna, the star, not “the” Madonna. Honestly, I don’t know how much genuine inspiration I have received over the years from Madonna, the revered mother of Jesus, my Mariology being fairly protestant I ...
Last Sunday we celebrated the Confirmation, Reception and Reaffirmation of forty of our co-journeyers. It was a glorious day with all the trimmings and one we at St. Bart’s shall not soon forget. The church-at-large is wounded and changing, often out of touch and sometimes on the wrong ...
I did not want to like Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. But I did. In the first pages I accurately realized that this social psychology professor at the University of Virginia was going to push some of my liberal buttons. And he ...
The waning hours of Lent 2012 are upon us. Early tomorrow evening not long after sundown, the first celebration of Easter will break the Lenten fast. Bells will be rung, shouts (Episcopal style) of “alleluia” will be heard, lights will flood the church, and a panoply of flowers will ...
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