We are the Light of the World

We are the Light of the World Are you content? Are you happy with your life?  Lately I’ve been seeing references in the press to a Harvard psychiatrist, Robert Waldinger. Dr. Waldinger, it turns out, is dealing with just these questions—and in a major way. He’s the director of the longest-range study of human contentment […]

We have the Baby

We have the Baby They were, frankly, exhausted. He’d been walking, while she rode the burro, for three days. Now their destination was in sight: Bethlehem, the home of his ancestor, the great David.       It could not have been a worse time for this enforced trek. “Everybody to your ancestral home to be taxed,” […]

Three Keys to the Christian Walk

Three Keys to the Christian Walk The year: 1853. Picture a man and his wife and their three children in a covered wagon headed west. They’ve been traveling for weeks. Finally, they arrive at their destination: a piece of gently rolling virgin farmland on the Great Plains in the then territory of Iowa. They’ve come […]

Four Funerals: Unity, Continuity, & Hope

Four Funerals: Unity, Continuity, & Hope Funerals have occupied me for the last several days. Friday was the service for our beloved Polly Stewart Fritch, integral part of our parish family.  Saturday was the service for long-time Christ Church member Warren Greene. Monday was, of course, the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth followed by the […]

The Queen. One Man’s Remembrance.

The Queen. One Man’s Remembrance. I’ve always loved the Queen. My mother taught me to.  A committed Anglophile, proud of our English heritage, she told me that—devoted, ardent American patriot though she also was—there were positive things about a monarchy. She said that monarchs without any actual political power, like the Queen, are a unifying […]

How to Know the Will of God for Your Life

How to know the Will of God for Your Life I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up it never occurred to me that God had a will for my life. It never occurred to me that He had any particular interest in the life decisions I made. I was my own […]