From time to time, I find myself wanting to share something that doesn’t quite rise to the level of a full reflection, like a short observation, a quick thought, a link worth noting, but not something that needs to be emailed to the thousands of you that subscribe to this blog. To make room for that kind of writing, I’ve added a new category here called Brief Notes. Posts in that category will appear on […]
I'm planning on posting more regularly, particularly regarding Artificial Intelligence and the impact on the Church's work.
Maple Anglican (@mapleanglican.bsky.social) over on BlueSky posted a question this afternoon asking people to share their favorite verse in the entire Bible. What a great question. Mine is “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14). I can barely read that without tearing up at Christmas each year. What’s yours? Is there a […]
I was delighted to receive this original poem written by Tessa Kale in an email this afternoon as a response to the posts and sermons about our human place in the Universe and our relationship to it and each other: The Overview Effect Their brightness was measured:they must be rational, logicalnot subject to raptures certainly not visions. They must beBlake’s naked Newton,a fierce focus on calipers and their calculus. But the astronauts did look […]
I’ve been thinking for a while about being more intentional regarding how best to share things I find online and random thoughts and ideas that occur to me. Years ago, I used this blog for that sort of thing. Then I started working on Episcopal Café, and that became my default place to post. Then came social media, especially Twitter. Twitter was perfect for sharing links and short posts. When I left the staff of […]
There’s a reconnection with Holy Scripture during this time of quarantine. People are joining to read the Office on Sundays, and clergy and lay people are gathering online to read the Daily Office in record numbers. All that scripture needs to have some sort of interpretive framework. James Stambaugh, writing on the site “Earth and Altar” delivers. He sets out a proper Barthian style hermeneutic and grounds it in the historical method of interpretation that […]
It’s been half a year since I’ve posted anything here. With the rise of Facebook and Twitter, I found that most of what I wanted to say was easier to say on those platforms, and because of that I spent most of time there. But after a few weeks of vacation this summer and a chance to think about what was next for this blog, I’m planning on returning to it. I’ve been reading with […]
Saw this over on Pastor Adam Copeland’s blog: Luther, centuries before, wrote about the tools of the day as articles through which we should show love to our neighbors. In this light, my iPhone becomes a tool for faithful living. It’s unusual for me to go more than a few hours without using my phone. I use it for directions, and daily to search for information about our world. I my phone to text message […]
So with the news of my move to Rhode Island now public, and people in Rhode Island understandably curious about who I am, I’m seeing a lot of new readers here on the blog. Welcome, I’m glad you’re poking around. I’ve been blogging for just about ten years now and there’s a lot to read. Some of it is even worthwhile. But I probably should warn new readers that a few years ago, after General […]
Yesterday, while I was diddling about with the banner on the top of the blog, I happened to notice that the email widget which subscribes people to my posts by email is reporting that there are something like 675 people doing that. That’s stunning to me. Between email subscribers and the 200 or so of you who read my posts by RSS subscription, and the 200+ people who just load this page the old fashioned […]
