Was there any place so lovely as my Grandma’s Episcopal church? Its tall, pointed stained glass windows seemed to point to heaven for prayer. I sat with my Grandma in the old wooden pews and read aloud with her the responses and petitions from the Book of Common Prayer. At […]
What could be more concrete, more basic, more material than our need for food? It is what fuels our energy, builds our bones, nourishes our muscles. It has texture in the mouth – crunchy, grainy, chewy, velvety. It astonishes our senses with its wide variety of tastes and smells (some […]
Sometimes one’s teaching has more of an impact than anticipated, and the results may be a little dismaying. Let me tell you what happened this past couple of weeks. A couple of weeks ago, to mark the beginning of Lent, I gave a talk on fasting to our community at […]
Happy Lent, everybody! (Does one say that?) To celebrate the start of the Lent season, I am posting a video I made a couple of years ago. This is a painting by one of my favorite painters–Pieter Brueghel–that hangs in the Brussels Musée des Beaux-Arts, contrasting the two seasons of […]
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