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  [The following is based on a sermon preached at Trinity Anglican Seminary, 5 June 2024.]    Lectionary : Deut 5:6-21 Ps 81:1-10(11-16) 2 Cor 4:1-12 Mark 2:23-28    There is a FoxTrot comic from 1988 in which Peter, the athletic older brother, asks his nerdy younger brother... Read More →

  A version of the following was originally posted July 16, 2024, on the blog of Edward Mechmann “Stepping Out of the Boat.” It is reprinted with permission. How far the Republican Party has fallen since Ronald Reagan wrote the magnificent pro-life manifesto Abortion and the... Read More →

  Readers can quickly recall what happened in recent years on January 6 (2021), and October 7 (2023). But historically? Historically, these dates are also very significant—one for the United States, the other for Europe—but unfortunately not often remembered.  On January 6,... Read More →

  As Moses spoke face to face with God his own face was being transformed into a glowing brightness that would be too much for the Israelites to look upon; for their sake, he covered his face when he went out to speak to them. Moses’ transfiguration is a type or anticipation... Read More →

So when we are talking about the prolife “message” breaking through in our culture, what we are talking about is reality breaking through in various cultural products. Read More →

When I look out on the pro-choice landscape something about women’s behavior rings false.  It’s so… Butch!  It’s as if abortion is something to claim, plant a flag in and then raise your fist in victory.  Isn’t that a Guy Thing?  It seems the strategy of... Read More →

  When the Vatican announced last month that Pope Francis would be the first Roman pontiff to address the G7 Summit—a meeting of the world’s leading national economic powers—I considered it a unique opportunity for the voice of the Church to be heard in the hearts, minds,... Read More →