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[Sermon delivered at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, on the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas (Feast of St. Stephen...

God loves the underdog. Think about it. The Chosen People arose from a small group of Bronze Age clans and tribes who were in no way...

Today the slightly somber nature of Advent lightens just a bit. While many use Advent as a countdown to the food and presents of...

John the Forerunner, a/k/a John the Baptist, is often portrayed as a dour, grim, sin-obsessed scold, almost as depressing as our pictures...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, on the First Sunday of Advent (Conventional)/Fourth Sunday of Advent...

I have had to recite the Office of the Dead rather frequently in the past year, as well as offering comfort to friends who have lost a...

For some time now we have been hearing about how the religious establishment in North America has been a willing collaborator in the...

In traditions that use the Apostles' Creed, worshippers are familiar with the turn of phrase, "The Communion of Saints." The Nicene...

Tim's son was blind, unemployed, and reduced to begging by the side of the road. Even th0ugh he was blind and adrift, he wasn't...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, on the Twenty-First Sunday of Pentecost, October 17, 2021...

Last week my parish celebrated the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, the day before the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the reason...

Ever since attendance at Mass on major feast days had seriously declined, parishes like the one I belong to have begun celebrating those...

Today's readings for Mass, that is, the Epistle and the Gospel, play a counter-harmony to each other. In the Epistle (Jas. 5.13-20) the...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona (https://stmarysphoenix.org) for the Seventeenth Sunday after...

It seems that religion is falling out of vogue. It also seems that those of us still among the faithful are making apology for it, not...