Forward Day By Day – October 29, 2018

Monday, October 29, 2018

Before I stepped into cold and snowy mornings to walk to school, my mother made sure I had eaten a hot, nourishing breakfast. She also fed me reminders about being on good behavior and working well. Swaddled in her love, I left the house fortified in body and...

Forward Day By Day – October 28, 2018

Sunday, October 28, 2018

What are the identifying characteristics of faith? How do we recognize faith when we are in its presence? In this story from Mark, we encounter someone who has and is impelled by great faith.Nothing is expected of Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, nor does he expect...

Forward Day By Day – October 27, 2018

Saturday, October 27, 2018

This parable has much to teach us about what constitutes hospitality, social obligation, and honor. Even if it is not because of friendship but rather self-interest, the neighbor ultimately responds to his needful friend’s relentless request.When my friend of longest...

Clergy Transitions Since the 180th Annual Convention

Friday, October 26, 2018

Clergy Transitions (Since the 180th Annual Convention on November 3, 2017)   New Clergy in the Diocese The Rev. John “Brad” St. Romain was licensed to the Diocese of Louisiana from the Diocese of Texas on January 25, 2018. The Rev. Stephen...

Forward Day By Day – October 26, 2018

Friday, October 26, 2018

When Susan Boyle took the stage on the competition “Britain’s Got Talent” several years ago, many rolled their eyes, and some snickered. Even one of the judges did not hide his doubtful expression. The woman at the microphone was forty-eight years old, with frizzy...

Forward Day By Day – October 25, 2018

Thursday, October 25, 2018

As a child, my neighbors were mostly folks who were African-American and Protestant, just like me. I now live in a neighborhood full of various ethnicities and faiths. My understanding of who my neighbors are has changed.The lawyer who challenges Jesus before the...

Forward Day By Day – October 24, 2018

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

“Wait until we get home,” my mother would say when I misbehaved in public. Once we arrived at the house, a prolonged silence often preceded punishment. The tension of those silences was worse than the actual punishments.God is always trying to get our attention and...

Forward Day By Day – October 23, 2018

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Few fictional characters so fully embody wickedness, sin, and scorn as that of Screwtape in C.S. Lewis’s classic The Screwtape Letters. Screwtape mentors his nephew in securing the damnation of a British man, known only as “the Patient.” Screwtapes are everywhere,...