Month: October 2020

For this week’s painting, I imagined the saints radiating out from the sun. The saints I chose to picture are people who have had special significance to me in my life, whether because I did specific studies of their lives, work, and legends, or because they offer an example that I want to follow. Starting…

The Columbus Episcopal Clergy will provide an on-line prayer vigil Tuesday, November 3, Election Day. Beginning at 6:30 am and ending at 7:30 pm, various members of the Columbus clergy will lead us in prayer. Prayers will be said at every hour and half-hour all day. In addition, reflections may be offered, music or images…

Proper 25, Year A These prayer practices can be used at any time during the week. They are meant for personal devotion and contemplation. If you would like a .pdf handout with these prayer practices, click here to download it. Anglican Rosary Prayers The Anglican Rosary consists of a cross or crucifix (✝︎), an invitatory…

As I painted last Saturday, I thought about how Moses, who reaches the border of the Promise Land but dies without entering it, is a stand-in for all of us. None of us will fully live into the future that we’re trying to make possible. The future is for our descendants, as it should be.…

 After the FBI indicted former House Speaker Larry Householder this summer over a $61 million dollar bribery scheme crucial to the passage of the nuclear plant bailout bill HB 6 in 2019, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine called for repeal of the tainted law, but the repeal is stranded in the Select Committee on Energy Policy…

Yesterday afternoon Franklin County was moved from an orange designation to a red designation in the State of Ohio’s Public Health Emergency Alert System. After consultation with the Wardens and Vestry, I have made the decision to cancel in-person worship this Sunday, and hold online worship only. This was obviously a hard decision, since so…

As I painted this small and rather weird portrait of Moses, I meditated on his asking God to “show me your glory” in this coming Sunday’s reading from the Book of Exodus. It struck me as odd that someone who has encountered God again and again throughout the course of the narrative still seems so…