On Saturday afternoon, I noticed that the sky started looking awfully orange. So I took these pictures (which are shown untouched). We had s...

I love listening to Dennis Prager on the radio and reading his columns. Here is one of his columns I think everyone should read. For much o...

A sermon to begin Lent. In 1969, one of the most successful self-help books of all time hit the shelves of bookstores across the country and...

Photo: Scott Gunn Monday night seemed like it just wasn't her night . We have yet to see how things will work out, but I thought the fol...

The Times of London made headlines elsewhere today with its front page headline " Churches back plan to unite under Pope ." Religi...

2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. This past Sunday, the Primates of the ...

The new church building of St Mark's in Arlington was consecrated Wednesday. A few items are left to be finished. The organ is still bei...

Back when Pastor Ted Haggard was dismissed as the pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs for scandal and sexual immorality, I jokin...

"No unbaptized person shall be eligible to receive Holy Communion in this Church." This canon echoes the eucharistic theology of t...

Today is the commemoration of the Martyrs of Japan. In 1549, Jesuits Francisco Xavier, Cosme de Torres, and John Fernandez arrived in Kagosh...

St Blase (or Blasius) was the bishop of Sebaste in Armenia during the fourth century. According to various accounts he was a physician befor...

Luke 2:22-40 And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to...

This Friday, February 2nd is the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple (also known as “the Purification of Mary” ...

The words of the liturgy are saturated with biblical themes, images, turns of phrase, and even outright quotes. The opening acclamation adde...

Instead of asking what the real Mary was like, we tend to debate what she was not: whether she and Joseph refrained from sexual relations an...

Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany Among preachers there’s a saying—that you really haven’t preached a great sermon until you’v...

This Sunday's epistle touched on the practice of speaking in tongues. Which reminds me, I don't think I've ever come across the ...

We are all familiar with the practice of news reporters employing (or at least attempting to) a native pronunciation of place names when cov...

Here's a question that's always a good conversation starter. Sometimes I ask people, What name would you choose if elected pope? It...

I am fascinated by the similar way in which St Paul and St Peter are commemorated. Neither has his own single feast day on his "heavenl...