Entangled States

“We can remain a community by keeping our full attention on Jesus.” Some of you had asked for a copy of my Convention address at our most recent convention. I don’t have the manuscript ready yet, but the video has been posted:

We've been guided by the work of the Traces of the Trade Foundation, founded by people with deep Rhode Island roots, and inspired by the reactions that Episcopalians in Rhode Island have had to learning their own history.

A thought occasioned by Bishop George Councel’s meditation on loss in the time of natural disaster: We live in the illusion that we can adapt and change the world to our purposes. Rather than recognizing that we are made to adapt and reorganize ourselves the world’s changes. We used to know differently. (A meditation given at the Spring 2013 House of Bishop’s meeting in Kanuga NC.)

I’m posting this Lenten reflection here as well as on the diocesan blog, where the rest of them have been posted. The subject matter touches on faith and science and I thought those of you reading here but not there might be interested.   Luke, Chapter 8 (NRSV) A few years ago I was invited to take part in a radio show that intended to discuss science and faith. I didn’t know much about the […]

As part of our Lenten observance in the Diocese of Rhode Island, I've invited people to read Luke and Acts with me. I'm posting a daily mediation on the <a href="http://episcopalri.blogspot.com">diocesan blog</a>. We'd love to have you join in the journey with us over there.

Having just returned to the Northeast from the Southwest, it’s not the change in temperature or weather that has been the most striking. It’s the change in the length of and the darkness of the night. In the Southwest, we lived significantly closer to the equator, and being in Arizona, we didn’t “do” daylight savings time. That meant that the days and nights tended to be more the same length all throughout the year. There […]