This morning, thinking again about a lovely event I attended last week, I realized another perk of living a long life: you get to see your children retire. You might even get to sit and listen while people you don’t know talk about them and their accomplishments. You get to listen to them as […]
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(Preacher’s note: this sermon was written for the congregation of Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Burlington, NC, in response to events in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Saturday, August 12. I had another sermon written, when suddenly the news broke. I had friends, colleagues in Charlottesville, and the news was personal to me as well as completely […]
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Last week representatives of the religions of the world met together in Salt Lake City. To me this event seemed significant and exciting, especially because it was only the sixth like it in the history of the world and was happening at a time when conflict in the Middle East seemed to be fueled by […]
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Today, I am told is International Peace Day. My daughter, Jan Fuller, senior chaplain at Elon University, has raised this question: “What can I do today to promote peace?” So I am thinking. The reason we never make peace, I think, is that we wait until violence breaks out and then we think about it, […]
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On the day I intended to post this blog I named it “Happy Hiroshima Day.” It was August 6, the birthday of my eldest daughter and the 70th anniversary of the day America, sweet land of liberty, dropped an atom bomb. But on that day I could neither finish nor post the blog because a […]
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