This is my response to Winnie Varghese's article in the Huffington Post (you can read the article here.) While I share the frustration that can lead to Winnie's "who needs them, anyway" attitude, I find that attitude problematic. It's not a question of whether we need the people who have left the church. It's a question … Continue reading A Response to “The Glorious Episcopal Church”

The bus stopped at a gas station in the middle of yellow fields and William got out and looked at the sky.  It was a huge sky, a sky that went on and on.  An old woman had come down the bus’s stairs behind him and was stretching, leaning back with her hands in the … Continue reading Stories from Ovid – Battus and Ocyrhoe

This Sunday is Trinity Sunday.  It's also around this time of year that many churches end their church school programs, and kids come and sit with their parents in the pews.  Which means that the first sermon they hear of the summer will, quite possibly, consist of obtuse theological wool-gathering.  Anytime anyone starts talking about … Continue reading The Trinity Surrenders