The Funny Friar

This is a reflection and place for dialogue on my sermon and related themes from the second Sunday of Advent, on the Gospel text from Ma...

This is a reflection and place for dialogue on my sermon and related themes from the first Sunday of Advent, on the Gospel text from Ma...

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...

Let’s start with a dictionary’s definition of the term, “open or acceptable to people of any Christian denomination.” This definiti...