​​​​​​​​​​St. Andrew's Episcopal Church

When you look at the lectionary for any given Sunday, you never know what you’re going to get. Sometimes you just have to make it work. ...

You want me to do what, Jesus? You want my to sell Nissan Rogue? My Smart phone? My Ipad, My Roth IRA? Everything? Ah, I don’t know. I...

From the Gospel of John 13 : “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”   The shooting in Minneapolis...

In case you missed it the first time, let me repeat what we just heard: "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were...

"Money, money, money Must be funny, in the rich man's world Money, money, money Always sunny in the rich man's world Ah-ha, all the...

This Gospel leaves us with more questions than answers.  The first few verses are the familiar words of the Lord’s Prayer a crash course...

The elementary school I attended was staffed by the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth. Their habit included a rectangular headpiece...

It was sometime in 1967. I was 19 and in the Minor Seminary of the Immaculate Conception at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New...

May only God’s word be spoken and may only God’s word be heard. Amen. The first time my mother brought me to work, I hid in a corner. I...

It doesn't have to be that way.   That’s precisely what this story is all about. Jesus walks into the tormented life of this suffering...

Some years ago, Episcopalians studying Congregation Development met at General Seminary in New York. Their discussion focused on five...

Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal, and says to the first man sitting at the bar, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The man said, "I...

One of the best newspaper cartoons of all time is Calvin and Hobbes. One day Calvin and Hobbes come marching into the living room early...

In the 1977 movie, The Turning Point starring Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, Deedee, a former ballerina, decides to leave the...

It was Easter Sunday, and the rector was greeting the crowds after the service. One woman, who only came to church on Easter, stopped to...

I’ve always held to the adage that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Truth be told, I think they are all important. One of...

Michael Patrick O’Malley, Jr. opened the morning newspaper and was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died. “How many...

All four of the Gospels include an account of a woman who anoints Jesus—each version somewhat different. Luke speaks of an unnamed woman...

Many years ago, my younger brother ran away from home one day. He was about 11 at the time. Our father died a month before. We had sold...

An Episcopal priest and a Baptist minister from the local churches are standing by the side of a heavily traveled road pounding a sign...