Faith Beyond the Episcopal Church

By Richard J. Mammana The 79th General Convention included several elements of legislation and partnership related to the Episcopal Church’s ecumenical and interreligious relations. Invited ecumenical and interreligious guests included clergy and representatives from...

General Convention wrap-up: Following the Way of Jesus

[Episcopal News Service] Responding to Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s call to “Follow the Way of Jesus,” deputies and bishops at the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, meeting July 5-13 in Austin, Texas, acted on a record number of resolutions on key...

Bishop Daniel Martins on GC79

The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, Bishop of Springfield, reflects on the 79th General Convention, and especially on its decision regarding same-sex marriage: The 1979 Book of Common Prayer (p. 423), in accordance with all of its predecessors, the official teaching of...

I Do Not Know You

The parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (Mt. 25: 1-13) always bothered me.  It was the refusal to share oil on the part of the Wise Virgins. That isn’t very Christian, is it? What happened to share everything?  Be poor and meek? Too bad you forgot your oil. Go see...

7/22: The House of Contemplation

9 Pentecost, July 22 2 Sam. 7:1-14a or Jer. 23:1-6 Ps. 89:20-37 or Ps. 23 Eph. 2:11-22 • Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 “Now when the king was settled in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him, the king said to the prophet Nathan, ‘See now, I...

Forward Day By Day – July 16, 2018

Getting ready for a hurricane was something I grew up knowing how to do. My first was Carla in 1961, but even before that one, my family kept an annual hurricane map on the refrigerator door and marked the progress of every storm. We stocked up on batteries and bread,...

Dancing!

2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19   I had the great good fortune to have been raised and educated by Southern Baptists. They taught me everything from higher maths to the importance of spending quiet time with God every day. The thing they didn’t teach me, though, is how to...

Forward Day By Day – July 15, 2018

Oh, what a tangled web. Because John dared to condemn Herod’s adultery with his former sister-in-law and now wife, Herodias, he was both hated and feared. Add Herod’s lust for his step-daughter, Salome, to the backdrop of a probably drunken birthday celebration, and...