It's commonly known that Evangelical Christians generally believe that all sins are the same to God. That is, equally offensive and equa...

Bishop Stanton announced his retirement and resignation as the Ordinary of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, effect in May of 2014. He has...

Today we celebrate the successful defense and preservation of orthodox Christianity,as articulated in that central mystery of the faith—th...

On this tax day, I thought it would be worth illustrating our national deficits and debt. This is what $1,000 looks like--a stack of ten $...

Certainly, Anglicans who are already in communion with the Holy See will have an apparent obligation to pray for for the conclave gatherin...

I made a new rose chasuble (the fifth, I've made in this color). Rose vestments are worn on the third Sunday in Advent (and the fou...

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...