Month: February 2008

OK so I’m still working on a Lenten Rule and, well, Lent is over half way over. Clean Monday starts for the Orthodox in March and I know they’ve got this Lent thing figured out, but by the time they can give me advice, we’ll be done. I’ve always been attracted to Benedict and his […]

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams argued recently for a ‘modified’ Sharia law for Muslims in Great Britain. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3328024.ece What does he mean exactly? On the surface it puts everyone’s knickers in a knot, but it leads the way to other kinds of questions. How does anyone in the West consistently follow their religion in […]

Here’s what I said yesterday to my parish… You have come today perhaps by some instinct that Lent is a good thing. We know that last night (despite Super Tuesday) Mardi Gras was celebrated throughout the world by many who have never even heard of Shrove Tuesday and who have no desire to even think […]

I am in a Dmin program at the local Seminary. Last week I took a course on ‘Leadership in Spiritual Formation.’ I was shocked (and delighted) that the prof, an executive pastor in a mega-church, has found himself on a journey to the church fathers and the ancient practices of ascesis as described by the […]