Palm Sunday has come and gone and with it one of the last in-person audience pleasers of the Christian calendar: The Passion of Jesus Christ as told by various Gospel writers. Over the space of the past twenty years or so, St. Michaels has taken the tradition and raised it a couple of notches above the ordinary audience partcipation exercises that ( Read more... )

The message of Crosby's sermon was that we can walk a little taller because we belong to G-d. That He is, in effect, Our Father. We've lost that early memory of being proud that our dad could kick your dad's ass (if, he wanted to.) Or, was taller or smarter or better looking. Or, happened to be the principal of the school. G-d is all those things ( Read more... )

My post-Pandemic tilt towards normalcy took a giant leap yesterday when a brunch date with Bing opened up, solidified and came in for a soft landing almost immediately after Church. Even the Lectionary readings seemed to support the idea putting away the ordinary patterns of mortal life and lifting one's spirit toward the Heavenly Kingdom (Hebrews ( Read more... )

It's that time again. When Christians around the world put the cross on their heads (if only figuratively this year) and realize once again that this is a real religion. It demands stuff from you ( Read more... )

My curiosity was piqued recently when someone whose opinion I value highly,  recommended this movie, possibly as a subject of spiritual lesson. So I rented it ( Read more... )

Last week's EfM class was about the Sabbath. It was also the first reading that I can recall for a long time that was not written by a Christian, but rather by a rabbi who died after a Jewish shabbat some fifty years ago. We'll be reading him next week too ( Read more... )

Last week's class was the last to cover the Theology textbook written by Dr. Ford and the consensus seemed to be that it could not have come a moment too soon. The edition we have is about the size of a pack of cigarettes and is a little less difficult to read than the Surgeon General's warning in the corner of one ( Read more... )

Tuesday night was a reprise of the previous week, which is to say, we continued on the theme of politics and religion, an easy target, given subsequent events around the election. The only thing that was different was the reading assignment. We made a switch from the survey book, "Theology" by David Ford and turned to the Spiritual Reflection ( Read more... )

Our EfM class was graced by the presence of a real live theologian last Tuesday, the Reverend Doctor Cheng. Dr. Cheng is the Assistant Rector at Supernatural, the same parish Huggy Bear was once attached to. Gosh, that seems a lifetime ago. I think the latter completely switched diocese once Crosby became engaged.Dr. Cheng came to answer our ( Read more... )

Along with the announcement that the Happy Couple will  be arriving in August, comes news that they will be doing so by automobiile, clear across the continent. I cannot think of anything more exciting (assuming, they're not already jaded by the idea of Seeing America First, or Second or Next - however one wants to put it) for two young people to ( Read more... )