The Gospel for Passion Sunday, the Fifth Sunday in Lent, contains one of the more unnerving passages in the Gospel - a tense exchange between Jesus and "the Jews" - which is St. John the Evangelist's short hand for the political and religious establishment in Jerusalem. Jesus assertion that, "Before Abraham was, I am" must have hit them with the force of a hammer because in using that phrase Jesus is asserting his divinity, asserting that He is, "God of God, Light of light,

Most organizations, if they survive long enough develop their own terminology. Given its origins in the time of the Roman Empire, it is not at all surprising that historic Christian traditions such as Anglicanism use a fair amount of recycled imperial terminology in their every day lives with terms like 'diocese' and 'province' being traceable to the administrative Reforms of Diocletian (284-305). The terms bishop and priest derive from the Latin versions of the Greek episk

There is a certain amount of cultural recoil from the concept of fixed forms of church service which I believe ignores the benefits of a...

This coming Sunday - June 8th - is Pentecost, or as Anglicans tend to refer to it, Whitsunday. Our services will be Morning Prayer at...

Yesterday was the First Day of Lent, or Ash Wednesday, which begins the tradition forty day period of reflection, fasting, and abstinence...