I like a good cup of coffee. Best Dude & often I frequent coffee joints. One of our favorite coffee stops is a family owned place in our beach town. He thinks that this little place serves ” the best biscuits & gravy ever” I think the fare at this coffee place is good. Once [...]
I do not buy into ” works theology” , the idea that one can earn points with God by performing certain works. To subscribe to such an exclusive theology would totally discount that thing we know as God’s grace. { Martin Luther had it correct in his 99 theses against the Roman Catholic Church regarding [...]
I am proud to be Irish-American. Dad’s people came to western Pennsylvania in the early 1800′s. I’ve grown up among my Irish American kin & identify strongly as an Irish-American. But there is also some English on Dad’s Mom’s side of the family, relatives about whom my brother & I did not know about until [...]
Bishop Katharine uses the story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman to ask you and me a simple question. Who it is who as, as did the Samaritan woman, reached out to us for assistance? My challenge to myself is to look around me this upcoming week for an encounter with someone hom God just [...]
I should have read this sermonette during Thanksgiving week. But the Holy Spirit had other plans for my Advent study time! Bishop Katharine talks about he proverbial family meal where ALL the relatives come together around one table to share food & drink. This calls to mind many a Christmas supper at my grandparents’ house [...]
Today I read the first chapter in ++ Katharine Jefferts-Schori’sboo_ A Wing & A Prayer. She titled it ” Tending the Body of Christ”. Most of us agree with her when she says that we live in a world that seems to lack hope. But, for we Christians, where do we find our hope? Our [...]
Ok, I have choices & I like choices. But these choices are not all about me…I am choosing what national & world issues will be ” mine”. I do believe that everyone can & should make a difference in our local regional, national & global & international issues. For now, my main passions in each [...]
I am straight & also a PROUD supporter of equal rights for GLBT persons . We have a long way to go in this country with regards to full inclusion of our GLBT citizens. It is still, in this country, perfectly acceptable for folks to discriminate against people just because they might be born with [...]
I can’t recall if I’d already written a ” Part 1″ Anyhow…. Y’all know that I am a quote junkie. This week I came across this quote & in the spirit of all the Kagan-confirming & the mitigate & thought it apropos. The quote goes something like this: ”I myself have never been able to [...]
I am writing this evening about temptations. Sorry….this is NOT a salacious blog. :O) The temptation about which I write refers to Lent. A recent homily I heard in church this season dealt with giving up things for Lent which are * really* hard to do without. For instance , since I hate spinach it [...]
