From the President
In the next several weeks, the entire Bexley Seabury faculty will be showcased in an eight-part video series introducing on-line audiences to the spiritual practices of the Book of Common Prayer. We are working with the Rev. Chris Yaw, founder of ChurchNext, a...
From the President
A sermon preached on Good Friday 2014, Church of St. Paul and the Redeemer, Chicago Every year on the evening between Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, the Episcopal cathedral in New York sponsors an all-night reading of Dante’s Inferno, all thirty-four exciting and...
From the President
I have always felt a close kinship with Nicodemus. He is one of several figures in the Gospels who approach Jesus in good faith only to get much more than they bargained for: like the rich man who had followed the Law diligently from his youth, the man whom Jesus...
From the President
For ten years I had the privilege of leading an historic endowed congregation in Lower Manhattan. Of course, it is difficult to imagine a parish functioning in expensive lower Manhattan without an endowment. There are five Episcopal parishes below 14th Street, all...
From the President
I write this President’s message during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. “It has been reported to me…that there are quarrels among you, brothers and sisters.” Now there’s an understatement. Imagine what Paul might have said about...
From the President
Robben Island, the bleakly beautiful island off the coast from Cape Town, is now a national museum and a World Heritage Site. It was once a leper colony, and then for decades housed the prison where Nelson Mandela and scores of other political activists were brutally...
