Month: February 2020

Here at St. Stephen’s we have a long and often very blessed relationship with The Ohio State University, and we heartily congratulate OSU on its 150 years of educating, serving and fostering the growth of the City of Columbus and many generations of graduates. In honor of their sesquicentennial, Ohio State welcomes everyone to come…

Last Sunday I preached on two poems. You can listen to the sermon using the player below. I’ve posted the poems beneath the player.   On My Own By Philip Levine Yes, I only got here on my own. Nothing miraculous. An old woman opened her door expecting the milk, and there I was, seven…

In a previous post, I offered an explanation of Christian “Midrash,” if it’s appropriate for a non-Jewish person to even use that term. In that post, I quoted Marjorie Sandor, who described the midrashic process of exploring a text in this way: “the midrashist would locate a gap, an entrance point, and dive down, metaphorically…

You can listen to my homily from last Sunday using the player below. There are a couple of references I used to put this sermon together that I want to give credit to. I got the story of Anne Sexton’s correspondence with a Benedictine Monk from this article by Nick Ripatrazone on LitHub. The Erica Jong…

Perpatetic Poets Sunday, February 16th 6:30pm – 9:00pm in the Chapel   Featured Poet Jeremy Glazier   Poems of Jeremy Glazier, head of the English Department of Ohio Dominican University, have appeared in many literary journals-including The Paris Review, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, and The Beloit Poetry Journal; He also writers prose: essays on poets…

I forgot to hit record on Sunday, so I present here a written text of my sermon (written after the fact from the chicken-scratch outline I use to preach, so those of you who were there, please excuse any differences). My friend Susan shared W.S. Merwin’s poem, “To the New Year,” with me: To the…