Clik here to view.
Evening Prayer 7.14.15, Samuel Occum, 1st Indian Ordained by Presbyterians, 1792
“So that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—“I say to you, stand up, take your mat and go to your home.” D’Army Bailey has died, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Evening Prayer 8.3.15, W.E.B. DuBois, Sociologist, 1963
“Why are you talking about having no bread?” Two churches in Las Cruces, New Mexico were firebombed Sunday morning; one Baptist and the other Roman Catholic. There were no injuries and not much damage,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Evening Prayer 8.24.15, St. Bartholomew the Apostle
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the LORD; so shall your descendants and your name remain. Someone is setting small fires at churches of various...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Evening Prayer 8.29.15, John Bunyan, Author of “Pilgrim’s Progress,” 1688
So when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” and kissed him. Last week at this time some of us were on the Daily Office retreat in southern Indiana, and after working all day we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Evening Prayer 8.30.15, Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Very truly, I tell you, whoever keeps my word will never see death. Robert Conquest has died, an Anglo-American poet and historian who revealed and interpreted the Ukrainian genocide of 1932-33, when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Evening Prayer 9.14.15, Holy Cross Day
The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures.” John Petts: Black Christ Crucified, at 16th Street Baptist Church,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Evening Prayer 9.22.15, Philander Chase, Missionary Bishop in the American...
Let your word be ‘Yes, Yes’ or ‘No, No’; anything more than this comes from the evil one. St. James Cathedral, Chicago, Illinois, was founded in 1834, before Bishop Chase arrived (1835), a diocese was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Evening Prayer 10.21.15, Twenty-First Ordinary Wednesday
Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you has only one sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath; will you not lay hold of it and lift it out?” Police in St. Louis, Missouri have asked for public help...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Morning Prayer 11.1.15, All Saints’ Day; Installation of the 27th Presiding...
The Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry will be installed today at Noon Eastern Standard Time at Washington National Cathedral as the 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church. Click here for the live...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Evening Prayer 12.22.15, Charlotte Diggs Moon, Lay Missionary in China, 1912
Mary was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Members of St. Paul’s, New Albany, Indiana went caroling Sunday night at six nursing homes, provoking smiles and...
View Article
