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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the great English romantic poet and incisive apologist on matters religious and spiritual, suggested in a defense of Christian orthodoxy against the puritans, the fundamentalists of his day, a radical premise. He wrote that in order to understand scripture one must employ the imagination; that it isRead More →

This past Saturday a few of us from All Saints joined others from the diocese of the Central Gulf Coast and the diocese of Alabama in pilgrimage to Hayneville, Al., a small hamlet some thirty miles southwest of Montgomery. August 14 is the feast day on the Episcopal calendar ofRead More →

I was talking to a priest friend of mine whose parish is on the Florida Gulf Coast. He recently went to the annual blessing of the fleet. Each year a different clergy person from the denominational diversity of the area is asked by the mayor to lead the prayers. MyRead More →

Kristen Campbell, the intrepid editor of the religion section of the Press Register called me yesterday to talk about an article she was working on. The article has to do with the economic realities these days: high prices, tight credit, joblessness, the spector of “stagflation” come back from the past…..economicRead More →

I really didn’t want to read it, but I couldn’t help myself. I’m speaking of the big feature article in the Press Register Saturday on the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. I was hopeful that the reporter at some point in the article would offer an intelligent critique; at leastRead More →