Mission Is Who We Are

In some ways I worry that I have no right to speak on the events of the last week in the United States, and especially in Florida, where I ...

Lent is a season of prayer.  Perhaps that is why I have tended to view Lent as getting in the way of what I’m doing.  That, of course, is th...

I have never been a great fan of Lent.  I suppose it’s that I don’t have a very penitential sort of personality.  Actually, it’s not that I’...

There is an inherent tension in the life of the Church, and it is very much one in which we live today.  It is the tension of stability and ...

Some of my happiest days were when Ginger and I were first married.  Part of the reason was her job as the head counselor at a group home fo...

The weeks in which we are now living are sandwiched in the calendar between the end of Christmastide and the beginning of Lent, between Epip...

I was present this weekend for the investiture of my friend Kee Sloan as Bishop of Alabama.  Kee was already Bishop Suffragan of Alabama so ...