Twenty-first Century Liturgy

REQUIEM aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen. It is with a heavy heart that I have to tell you...

My wife and I made this year’s annual Holy Week pilgrimage at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston. Since I retired from parish ministry, ...

When I received word last week that Harold Daniels “passed from this life to the next on February 5,” I felt that jolt of the loss of a good...

With all the controversy about deflated footballs, I encountered another “deflation” issue in a worship service recently. Held during a meet...

One of the advantages of being retired from parish ministry is that I get the opportunity to worship in a variety of churches.  As a pas...

The first visit I made many years ago to the New Skete Monastery near Cambridge, New York, required a substantial thought adjustment on my p...

Sometimes it’s the bumper-sticker quotes that stick to my brain and remind me of a critical truth. The one that’s been pestering me recentl...