Sanctity of Life Sunday is usually the Sunday closest to January 22nd, the day in 1973 that the US Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wa...

This Christmastide, Ive been reading from Raymond Brown's monumental work The Birth of Messiah . In the second appendix (pg 505ff), he...

For those many of you who have been requesting that I post my sermons, here you go (audio version at bottom). Today we begin the season o...

 Last Saturday, my family and I began a journey. We set out on a drive to Delafield, Wisconsin with a lay-over in Kansas City to visit my ...

I'm throwing my hat over the fence. On Saturday, I'm leaving for my sabbatical in Wisconsin where I'll be doing research for ...

Jesus said, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” From the Gospel according to St Luke, in ...

 One of the best books, and very accessible to the typical layman in the pew, is The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions , written together by...

In the epistle for today's Daily Office readings, one verse that stood out was Galatians 5:6 "In Christ Jesus neither circumcisio...

It’s almost a joke that among Bible scholars, whatever name is on a book of the Bible is not the person they think actually wrote it. They...

From an ancient homily for Holy Saturday:  Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and...

I’ve wrestled for months about whether to write this. Now I’m breaking my own rule to not publicly take sides about candidates in politica...

Given at Hamilton, Dublin, and Comanche Texas on 20 January 2013  If you had conducted a survey of American clergy 100 years ago and ask...

1. It just feels more real.  I’ve been to a decent number of NFL games, and each one I attended felt like I was at the taping of a TV sho...

The question has come up lately in light of Syrian refugees and the problems of security risks coupled with receiving such refugees (espec...

Pope Francis' homily at Vespers in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York during his visit to the United States included one paragrap...