The Funny Friar

When was the last time you stripped in front a gathering of your hometown, with the local bishop and your own father in attendance? ...

This is a reflection and place for dialogue on my sermon (click here to listen) and related themes from the seventh Sunday of Easter, o...

This year has featured two unusual alignments between the Christian calendar and the secular calendar. The first was the coming together...

This is a reflection and place for dialogue on my sermon and related themes from the last Sunday of Epiphany, on the Gospel text from S...

One factor that has long weakened Christian witness is Christian disunity, as manifested in thousands of denominations, conflicts betwee...

In Christianity, discipleship is intimately tied to spirituality. Spirituality is notorious difficult to define, to the point that many ...

A politician for Christ? Surely, I must be joking. Such is the collective state of our culture that even believers, much less our good-w...

John Donne is remembered as many things: lawyer, priest, and poet. The last designation is probably the one he is most well-known by. In...

March 24 (in the Church of England) and September 28 (The Episcopal Church) is the feast of Walter Hilton. He lived in 14 th century En...

March 17th is Saint Patrick’s Day. A day when people wear green, drink beer (Guinness, please) and engage in some good old fashion misch...

Today is the feast of Saint Brigid of Kildare, one of the three patron saints of Ireland (the other two being Saint Patrick and Saint Columb...

Saint Thomas Aquinas, whose feast day is January 28, is not often thought of as a funny man. After all, his work is dense, lucid, brilli...

Imagine Christmas without carols. Imagine Christmas without packages wrapped with care (and torn open with glee). Imagine Christmas with...

Easter is unusually early this year. Lent started in the darkness of the winter and while in in the global north Easter has long been ti...

  Historically, the Christian Church has taken two major approaches when it comes to other religions. Just to be clear, when we’re tal...

               The goal of Christian living might aptly be thought of as the process of becoming more fully alive, more fully human. So...

Valentine's Day ( it's Thursday) brings a mixture of sentiments: obligation (“if I don’t do something she’ll get mad.”), hope (“May...

The Holy Eucharist is the central act of worship in the majority of Christian churches around the world. There are many reasons for this. On...

The Christian life might properly be described as a progressive entry into heaven. In other words, we don’t only experience heaven after we ...

The belief in a general resurrection of the dead at the end of time is one of the oldest beliefs of the Christian faith. It is found through...