It’s wonderful what you can learn in the allergist’s waiting room. As I write this on Tuesday morning, the TV news is on in the background. Two items come to my attention. Big Momma, Massachusetts is trying to ban school bake sales in an attempt to control obesity and Al Qaeda’s plot to blow up a U.S. bound jet with a more sophisticated underwear bomb has been foiled. Continue reading →

There are times when stepping out the front door leads only to the usual round of mundane tasks, but there are other times when we step out into the unknown. One of our hymns this morning says, “I know not where the road will lead I follow day by day, or where it ends: I only know I walk the King’s highway. I know not if the way is long, and no one else can say; but rough or smooth, up hill or down, I walk the King’s highway.”ii Continue reading →

We can easily fool ourselves and mistake what is in our imagination for what is in our heart. We imagine that we want to diet and our heart says we want to eat. Blaise Pascal, the 17th Century scientist philosopher makes an important observation about the difference between imagination and the heart. He says, “Men often take their imagination for their heart, and often believe they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted.” Continue reading →

To many Protestant Christians the Apocrypha is a strange and somewhat suspect collection of Books. Our Anglican tradition tells us that while we do not read the Apocrypha to establish doctrine, do read it for “example of life and instruction of manners.”i In short we can read the Books of the Apocrypha for devotional purposes and within its pages many secret treasures are hidden. Continue reading →

Well, not always. Miracles, among other things, are hard to believe in, even when you see them. Our age is long on scepticism and we don’t seem to give much heed to the experience of others. That is one of the problems with tornado warnings. Some hear the sirens and head for the shelter; others take a lot of convincing. Continue reading →

This is the morning after the tornados and the sun is streaming through the bushes screening my study window. As the light hits the leaves all the variegated shades of green are highlighted and the leaves tremble in the light breeze. Continue reading →

“Indifference is farther from the love of God than the hatred of God is. You can love and hate the same person at the same time, but you cannot love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.”i Continue reading →

It has been a difficult week for Russ and Suzanne Crawford and their children following the death of their son John. It has also been difficult for our small family at Trinity as we have grieved along with the Crawfords. Part of the problem is that in the face of death all of us are helpless. In the light of that St. Paul advises that we “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.”i Continue reading →

Man does not know the place he should occupy. He has obviously gone astray; he has fallen from his true place and cannot find it again. He searches everywhere, anxiously but in vain, in the midst of impenetrable darkness.i Continue reading →