July 23, 2017 I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether. -NEIL POSTMAN The first duty of love is to listen. PAUL TILLICH Psalm 14 Summer in the Psalms The Reverend Jedidiah […]

July 30, 2017 “I write about food because I am hungry. But there is more to it than that. It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when […]

August 6, 2017 “Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.” C.S. LEWIS Psalm 16 Summer in the Psalms The Reverend Joe Dewey

July 16, 2017 “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Psalm 13 Summer in the Psalms The Reverend Jamison Galt

July 9, 2017 Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this. RICHARD ROHR Psalm 12 Summer in the Psalms The Reverend Jamison Galt

July 2, 2017 It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. GRAHAM GREENE Psalm 11 Summer in the Psalms Mr. David Williams

June 25, 2017 If I had a message to my contemporaries, it was surely this: be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success. THOMAS MERTON Acts 28:16–31 Acts: To Change the World The Reverend Jamison Galt

June 11, 2017 I can never agree with you that the Incarnation, or any truth, has to satisfy emotionally to be right… There are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive… The thought of everybody lolling […]

June 4, 2017 “The holy mystery of the day of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, is to be understood in the following manner: the spirit of man must be completed and perfected by the Holy Spirit, that is, it must be sanctified, illuminated, and divinized by the Holy Spirit. This holy mystery is realized continually in […]

May 28, 2012 In addressing our fear of death, Jesus’ resurrection addresses so many other fears as well, because so many of our fears are actually the fear of death, defeat, annihilation, powerlessness, the fear of not being there, not being able to make our presence felt or make our will real. And God through […]