Posts from December 2018

As are many of you, I’m still “basking in the glow” of this past Sunday’s worship with our Bishop Wright. However the unusual day’s beginning with doubly troubled cars had its effect what transpired once the church was full and we were singing was already a remarkable moment. And it kept on happening as a beautiful combination of prayer book order and spiritual spontaneity unfolded before us all. It was a unique gift for each of us to be party…

Once in Royal David’s City It was when I was serving in Augusta, Ga. as Assistant Rector for the Church of the Good Shepherd that I first coined the phrase, “taking Halloween back from Wal-Mart.”  It was in response to our having adopted the outline from Gretchen Wolff Pritchard’s Offering the Gospel to Children of an All Saints’ Day event.  Tricia Dodge, Infant and Childrens’ Minister needed the youth which were in the program for which I had oversight to…

The Song of Luke’s Gospel There so many songs associated with our Advent observance.  The human response to God’s presence as Redeemer and Judge elicits praise, thanksgiving, relief, confidence, commitment, and hope.  Even what we read in scripture in the story of God’s coming into our world and the difference that makes is render in song after song. This Sunday we’ll substitute the Song of Zechariah for the psalm at the Gradual.  Zechariah’s song was unique and was so by…