building a community of grace
My Chaplain letter to the congregation in Freiburg this time is a series of questions I ask myself and wart all of us to seriously ask ourselves. Here are those questions: How Long? How long can we continue living the way we are leaving today? How long can we continue to have wars? How long... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Eighty years ago, on Sept. 23, 1944, British submarine H.M.S. Trenchant torpedoed and sank the German U-boat U 859 in the approaches to Penang. Among those killed that day was my father’s 20 year-old cousin Fritz. I remember hearing about this cousin from my childhood,... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Soaring on wings like eagles So effortless, peaceful, steady, High above all the daily ground work, the labor, the sweat of trying to climb step by step. There is not even a flap of wings that carry the majestic bird higher and higher Circles written... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- It can be hard to live with diversity – but it doesn’t have to be. As I was recently reminded in viewing a documentary, we ourselves make it so. The documentary is entitled “Human”, and I came across it the other day, when doing research... Continue Reading →
Two Reflections for the Blessing of the New Academic Year - Sunday, the 8th September 2024 A New Creation: “Look, new things have come into being!” So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! All this is from God, who... Continue Reading →
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel! Matthew 23:24 The Gnat is the smallest of the unclean species mentioned in the law and the camel is the largest (Lev 11:4). Jesus is making it clear here that while being careful about the minute details of the law and the requirements... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the (date) Reading: James 1.17-27 When I started to prepare myself for today, my first reflection in a service ever, one of the first questions for me to answer was: what could be MY theme today? I looked at the readings for this Sunday, read them a several times, let them work... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- I’m not much of a fan of self-help books and articles. But recently I was intrigued: my daily “Morning” feed from the New York Times had, as its first short article, “How to Like Yourself More”., (Melissa Kirsch, NYT, June 29, 2024). How odd for... Continue Reading →
The ripples of the International and Ecumenical Conference on Racial Justice that was hosted in Freiburg last November is still reverberating across the diocese and beyond and there has been a persistent call for a follow up conference to look further into specific recommendations from the event. Of the many meaningful proposals in the Freiburg... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- ‘Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo?’ is an advertising slogan that will be immediately familiar to everyone of a certain age from the UK. The advert itself featured a sketched young couple sitting on a park bench talking to the... Continue Reading →
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