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The Danger of this Moment I was enjoying my time in Maine with my family when hell broke loose in Charlottesville, rattling the national psyche. How is it possible for someone to think it is a good thing to follow ideologies that enslaved human beings in the 19th century and...

Dear Friends in Christ, Last Saturday the Church gathered to pray good-bye to Tom Shaw, bishop, monk, and friend. The young Sri Lankan man sitting next to me on a back pew of the glorious Trinity Church, Copley Square, had flown in from Washington, D.C. He too had been touched...

Holy Week 2016 A Word to the Church from the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church “We reject the idolatrous notion that we can ensure the safety of some by sacrificing the hopes of others.” On Good Friday the ruling political forces of the day tortured and executed an...

Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims of yesterday’s shootings in Charleston, S.C., and to their families, the people of Emanuel A.M.E. Church and the wider Charleston community. This horrific event comes in the wake of our sorrow over the murder of Jonathan Dos Santos, the teen gunned down...

Sermon Maundy Thursday April 2, 2015 William Bradbury   Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14  1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-17, 31b-35  Psalm 116:1, 10-17  We enter tonight the mystery of the great three days: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Day of Resurrection. They are one event, one act of salvation and...

Forum Notes What is the Good News? William Bradbury June 7, 2015 I. Introduction: (The following quotes are from the wonderful new book, which is written for folks like us, by N. T. Wright, Anglican bishop and preeminent New Testament scholar: Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and...

Forum The Strong Name of the Trinity Trinity Sunday William Bradbury May 31, 2015 (This is the hand-out for the forum) A distressing image: On May 27, 1995, twenty years ago this past Wednesday, Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse as it refused the third jump at a race...

Dear Friends in Christ, Where is God when you pray? When I pray the Lord’s Prayer my unconscious mind imagines that God is, as the prayer says, “in heaven”, which I was told as a child is a long way from here and now. Further, this “in heaven” also produces...

Dear Friends in God, I grew up a “glass half-empty” kind of guy. I was raised in a loving home in middle class southern comfort with no need unmet, yet I felt something important was missing in me. This sense of lack became the lens through which I viewed everything...