What can we learn from the past to understand the present and the time to come? Do we really have a crisis in our Democracy? Has this happened before? Are we facing a new kind of American government that places governing control in the hands of a Dictator or King? Are we threatened by any change in the relationship of men to women, or to white Anglo-Saxon males by new foreign groups that are growing in our land?

The people of God tend to complain even when things are good. They seem to have a need to complain.  And when they do, they are not able to appreciate what they already have. They are unable to see the blessings God already has poured out on them.

By The Rev. Craig A. Phillips, Ph.D. A long time ago—when I was in high school—I bought a pocket-sized pamphlet of one hundred and two short prayers.  They were written by Malcolm L. Playfoot, described as the “Sometime Administrator of the (Anglican) Society of the...

Our nation is divided. Whatever our political leanings, as Christians, we each promise to be faithful to the God who calls us. That is what a covenant is. It is an agreement between people in the presence of God. That is why marriage also is called a covenant. It is a promise made between two people in the presence of God. In the Baptismal Covenant of the Episcopal Church, we promise to one another and to God that we will live by the following principles and will do that by doing the following things. Let me now read from the covenant itself.

By The Rev. Craig A. Phillips, Ph.D. Over the past couple of decades, many congregations have sought to practice “radical hospitality.” Simply put, that means welcoming those who come into the doors of the church in the most hospitable way imaginable. Most Christians...

By: Francis X. Clooney, SJ Sunday church services are built around the Word of God, its proclamation, our hearing it and sharing it, then taking it home with us. Or so we say, and so I imagine, week after week in my parish. But how often does the Word change anything,...