Mission Is Who We Are

Once, in the home of Simon the Leper, “as [Jesus] sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, an...

I went to see “McFarland” Saturday night since I already had my sermon done.  “McFarland” is the true story of something of a misfit co...

During the bishop search process in Lexington, Ginger and I visited several different churches and diocesan ministries.  One of the place...

Like most children, I suppose, I had a high priority to be like everyone else when I was little.  My parents were not sympathetic. The s...

I may have grown up as a Methodist, but it was only many years later as an adult that I became acquainted with Wesleyans.  Not Methodists...

One of the things that amazes me about New Yorkers is how good they are at waiting.  They wait at the bus stop and subway platform.  They w...

France suffered a horrible atrocity two weeks ago.  Eleven staffers of a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo , were systematically execut...