In the Name… Sometimes, you just can’t invent this stuff.  A letter from the Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina,...

Praise the Rain BY JOY HARJO Praise the rain; the seagull dive The curl of plant, the raven talk— Praise the hurt, the house slack The...

Drive-In Communion at St. Paul’s? Yes, it’s true. We can receive Sunday Holy Communion at St. Paul’s by driving in. However odd this may...

Sumner Hall is sponsoring a challenge as "a way to get as many masks as possible into the hands of health care workers in MD hospitals,...

Sermon: LENT 4, March 22nd, 2020 In the Name... A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying.  To...

During his address yesterday, Pope Francis urged every family, every individual Catholic, and every religious community to join in...

In the Name… A Sunday School teacher asked the class, “Why did the Hebrews wander in the desert for forty years?” One boy put up his...

In the Name... Some years ago I heard the phrase, "God so loved the world...that he didn't send a committee." I think we can all relate...

In the Name... Two young monks both wanted to smoke during Lent and decided to ask the abbot. The first asked, but was told no. The...

In the Name... A man showed up at the door of the rectory and said, “Father, there’s a poor family in town who desperately need help. ...

In the Name... A friend from Kentucky once joked with me that he had always thought the Sermon on the Mount referred to the instructions...

In the Name… One morning, over breakfast, a woman said to her husband, “I’ll bet you don’t know what today is.” “Oh, yes”, he said, “I...

In the Name... Among the fables of Antiquity, there is the story of the pheasant and the eagle. The pheasant was envious of the eagle...

In the Name… Over the centuries, theologians have debated what baptism accomplishes, to whom it should be administered, and, even, how...

In the Name... The story is told of a Sunday School nativity play. And all was going smoothly until the Wise Men arrived. The first...

In the Name… Merry Christmas. Yes, it's the Fifth Day of Christmas, as the song goes. Five golden rings and all that. So, you can...

In the Name... Ah. So much for my clever disguise, but, you all knew who I was supposed to be, right? So, what on earth does Rudolph...

In the Name... A quiz show contestant was asked to name two of Santa's reindeer. The contestant responded "Rudolph and Olive." The host...

In the Name… A Sunday School teacher was showing her class a traditional picture of a New England pilgrim family going to church and...

Sermon: CHRIST-THE-KING, November 24th, 2019 In the Name… When Sue and I lived in Newport News, Virginia, there was a realtor in our area...