Today’s readings bring to my mind my own personal sacrifices over the past 13 years.  If I had been able to put a box of tissues on each...

Raise your hand if you married your first cousin. <look for any raised hands> That is what Jacob did.  Laban was Rebekah’s brother,...

In 1974 I had an accident where I had some compression fractures in three vertebrae of my upper back.  The required healing process meant...

Today’s lessons focus on choices. Esau chose to sell his birthright for a bowl of stew because he was “famished.” Jacob chose to make a...

The Old Testament reading today is about marriage, like it was in the days of Abraham.  Some gold jewelry was given as a way of...

Over the past few weeks I have seen blog shares on Facebook which focus on the “issue” of Millennials leaving the Church and them being...

In 1854, in response to the events that occurred in the Crimean War, Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote these now famous words: Half a league,...

In the Genesis reading today, we hear it beginning by making the statement about Isaac growing from birth “and was weaned.”  The Jewish...

Today, according to the Episcopal liturgical calendar, is Trinity Sunday.  We recognize the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit today....

I wish we had programmed the organ to play Pomp and Circumstance, because today is graduation day. The high schools in Marion County...

We are now at the seventh Sunday of the Easter season – the Counting of the Omer, heading to the Festival of Weeks (Shavuot). In the...

We have reached the sixth Sunday of Easter, meaning we are 42 days into the counting of the 50 – to Pentecost, the fiftieth day. We have...

This is the fifth Sunday in a counting of seven.  We are 35 days towards the Christian Pentecost.  We have two more weeks to prepare to...

Today represents the end of the fourth week of the counting of the Omer. We are now on the 28th day since the ceremonial presentation of...

In terms of the Christian liturgical calendar, today is the 14th day of the Easter season, counting toward the fiftieth day, our Day of...

We are in the Easter Season.  We can all wear white clothes, white shoes, white accessories, and even straw hats, from now until Labor...

Alleluia, Christ the Lord is risen! (The Lord has risen indeed!) I want to welcome all the people who have been away from a physical...

This is Palm Sunday.  We have finished the period of sacrifice and fasting, having come through the forty days of Lent.  Basic training...

In this Lenten period, we are now at the 5th Sunday.  We have reached the 33rd day of our 40-day soul searching, to find Christ within...

When I was a kid I used to stay up on Friday nights and watch the “Friday Night Frights.”  That was a show that came on after the 11:00...