A number of my FaceBook friends have been posting things they are thankful for in the days of November running up to Thanksgiving day. Tod...

Now it is the day after and we know that President Obama secured re-election by at least 303 electors (Florida still has yet to be called--m...

If you will indulge me, I've been looking over the figures for second term presidential elections in my spare time (ha!) lately. To me, ...

In 1969, President Nixon popularized the expression "silent majority" when he appealed to the "great silent majority of my fe...

This is my sermon from All Saints' Sunday, given on 4 November 2012 at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Hamilton, Texas. This scen...

“We profess the holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West; more particularly, as ...

A "third party candidate" has never been elected President of the United States. Shifts to new majority parties (Democrats, Whig...

The map above represents the county-by-county results of the 2000 presidential election. I post it because the 2000 results were the close...

"Every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new an...

“Jesus said to them, ‘My wife . . .’ [and that’s where the page is torn].” So reads one line of a business card sized scrap of papyrus unv...

Mark 10:2-9  Pharisees came up and in order to test [Jesus] asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" He answered them...

"For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede tho...

This is Bishop Donald Parsons' address at the 2012 Assembly of Forward in Faith, North America. I always love hearing Bishop Parsons g...

Reginald Pole was definitely pushing the boundaries of lay ministry. Of course, he represents a different era when such things were not qu...

This afternoon, I was looking up something in my handy ' Pocket Catholic Dictionary ' by John Hardon (an excellent resource, btw). A...

In light of the recent charges made against nine bishops of the Episcopal Church for attaching their names to an amicus brief explaining t...

"In a study of religious deconversion, we analyzed 50 on-line testimonies posted by former Christians, and in these testimonies we fou...

Priesthood is essentially fatherhood. That’s why we call our pastors our spiritual fathers--they father a community. It is a special relatio...

The ten volume series Dogmatic Theology , by Dr. Francis Hall has been called the Anglican version of Aquinas' Summa Theologica , and ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines death as the separation of soul and body. This is a good theological definition, and as far ...