TO the alarming list of innate vices which you have managed to get together I should like to add another: Pride. All this preoccupation with your own imperfection is not humility, but an insidious for of spiritual pride. What do you expect to be? A Saint? There are desperately few of them: and even they… Continue reading Tuesday of the Third Week in Lent: A Letter to A Friend – Pride
This is not mere pious fluff. This is a terribly practical job; the only way in which we can contribute to the bringing in of the Kingdom of God. Humanitarian politics will not do it. Theological restatement will not do it. Holiness will do it. And for this growth toward holiness, it seems that it… Continue reading Monday of the Third Week in Lent: Holiness and the Two Loves – Evelyn Underhill
There is a wonderful chapter in Ruysbroeck’s “Book of the Twelve Beguines,” in which he describes the life of one who has achieved this state, as “ministering to the world without in love and in mercy; whilst inwardly abiding in simplicity, in stillness, and in utter peace.” Reading it, we remember that it was said… Continue reading Third Sunday in Lent: The Two Loves – Evelyn Underhill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFalmesXWMY While I was in seminary I worked as the Summer School Chaplain at Saint Andrew's - Sewanee Episcopal School in Tennessee. One afternoon during a break in the school activities I was flipping through channels and came across a sermon by The Reverend TD Jakes. I was captivated by his passion and his life… Continue reading Something To Ponder in Uncertain Times
The Carpenter's Nail 