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From the Daily Lectionary for Tuesday in the Fourteenth Week after Pentecost John 10:31-42 The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” The Jews answered, “It isRead More →

A Prayer for Labor Day (BCP p. 261) O God, you have so linked our lives one with another that all we do affects, for good or ill, all other lives: So guide us in the work we do, that we may do it not for self alone, but forRead More →

From the Daily Lectionary for Friday/Saturday September 4-5, Proper 17 John 10:1-18 (The Message by Eugene Peterson) “Let me set this before you as plainly as I can. If a person climbs over or through the fence of a sheep pen instead of going through the gate, you know he’sRead More →

From the Daily Lectionary for Thursday in the Thirteenth Week after Pentecost John 9:1-17 As Jesus walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parentsRead More →

Margaret Atwood, poet, novelist and social commentator, says that there are three things essential to a viable democracy: An independent judiciary, an independent press, and a fair and reliable electorate, one free from partisan manipulation. These three are being assaulted and undermined as we speak. I don’t think it isRead More →