Month: May 2016

waiting

Kneeling, waiting on God can be infuriating.  This image from our Te Deum window over the West (actually south but who’s counting) doors of the cathedral is a detail we never really see because the window is so high.  I think this is Mary of Magdala because she is often...

Glory

The Te Deum window of the cathedral around which a great Antiphonal Organ is being built the week. My favorite writer on the spiritual life, Maggie Ross reveals  in The Fire of your Life, that the two comments she receives most are "You don't look like a hermit," followed by...

To the words between us; and to us between the words!

There is a great creativity possible when we fail. Initially, nobody likes failure.  We westerners tend to think that we are failures rather than that we have experienced failure.  These are two very different things.  Like the difference between shame and guilt (what I am versus what I have done),...

The Wonder-woman pose: our imago dei

I am reading a wonderful book called Presence by Amy Cuddy as preparation to work I am doing with the House of Bishops in June and a book I am writing about asking for major gifts in churches - the second in a trilogy of the ‘fearless” book series on...

“My peace I leave with you…”

In John’s loop-de-loop gospel, everything is entwined and sounds terribly busy.  Like the vines of morning glories, Jesus weaves loops of meaning sometimes hard to interpret with sayings like “I am in you and you are in me and I am in the Father… but one thing in John’s gospel...