Not long ago, God gave me a wonderful reminder about ministry through a woman named Deacon Pat. She is the youth minister at St. John the Baptist in Orlando, and she has served as a deacon for many years. I wouldn’t put anybody beside her in terms of passion, talent and genuine heartfelt love for…

John uses a technique in his Gospel where in his sermon forms, he does more than address his historic audience. He’s also addressing the reader. In fact, there are times where you almost get the impression that Jesus is talking to someone in the context of the story, and—just as if it were a play—he…

We look today with gratitude at the life of a woman by the name of Fanny Crosby. She is not part of our Episcopal-Anglican tradition, at least by her membership. Born in the late 1800s in the county of Putnam, New York, she was always a Methodist who never had any inkling of becoming an…