Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. writes at the beginning of his book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: “What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart. Believing that it is in our nature to enjoy giving and receiving in a compassionate manner, … READ MORE…
The Rt. Rev. Dan Thomas Edwards, Bishop of Nevada, has some scenarios about how to welcome back people who have been away for a while. Some of these may surprise you. Do not make jokes about someone’s past absence or their return. You don’t know what you’re laughing at. …Do not say, “We have missed … READ MORE…
If it is only a number, it seemed a significant one to me. Friends tell me about their angst over turning forty or fifty or sixty. But I’m here to tell you that turning seventy gave me plenty to think about. I don’t mean the fact that there are fewer years ahead than behind, although … READ MORE…
Editor’s note: a Cathedral member who prefers to be anonymous sent us this blog for the Christmas season. You may be sitting next to this Secret Santa on Sunday! In the last year or two, there has been a spontaneous surge of people acting as “Secret Santas” for folks who have Christmas gifts on … READ MORE…
There are so many aspects of the profound presence of God at St. Paul’s Cathedral for which to be grateful, it is difficult to focus on just one. However, I would like to talk about something that has become a true Cornerstone for me this past year: And that is, the many opportunities to receive … READ MORE…
For those of us who became Episcopalians over the past thirty years, the 1979 Book of Common Prayer is about all we’ve ever known. It replaced the 1928 BCP, a book held in great reverence by many or the faithful. But the 1979 BCP presented Rite One (language from the 1928 book) as well as … READ MORE…
As a kid I read encyclopedias for fun. One day browsing the E volume I saw some dead guy called T.S. Eliot. Black and white headshot, slicked hair, tie askew, Harry Potter glasses. Nobody I knew looked like that. He wrote poetry. He seemed deeply weird. So I didn’t pay much attention. But the image … READ MORE…
We live in the age of rapid communications, no doubt about it. But that word, communications, is a misnomer. What we live in is the age when our current devices, cell phones, and computers, allow us to ignore each other, neglect each other, and monitor each other’s calls. You’d think, wouldn’t you, that now that … READ MORE…
Doug Hulbert and his angel This week, specifically, September 4, 2012 marks two years to the day that Doug suffered a cardiac arrest that left him with no heartbeat, pronounced dead on the street, brought back to life by the efforts of a dedicated young police officer who continued CPR for 5 minutes and NEVER … READ MORE…
Theories are rife among psychologists and police as to why the gunman in Aurora, Colorado, did what he did. Some of those theories center around the possibility of the gunman’s feelings of alienation. Maybe that will serve as an excuse, and perhaps even a reason for what prompted his senseless rampage in the theater on … READ MORE…