From the outside of the church, the work of the church -- the tasks of a Christian life -- might seem obvious: prayer, worship, scripture reading (both alone and in a group), confession, and participation in the sacraments. These things are all good and crucial and true, and, if they were all you saw in Christianity, you would be missing out on some of the best Christianity has to offer: Christian friendship. As a pastor, my hope is of course that my students would enjoy wors

This morning, Fr. Rock Higgins reminded us that sometimes the parables are negative examples of behavior, and that the "figure" in the parables is not always God. So it would be easy to read this parable and think: God is like an unjust judge but nicer. It would be easy to read this and surmise that God also doesn't want to be bothered, but will relent if asked, or perhaps relent after asking only six or seven times rather than fifteen or twenty. But rather this parable is an

When I started as your campus minister, I had just two students, one who was a senior about to graduate and one who was so burned out she...

The students and young adults with whom I work are frustrated sometimes with what they describe as "how an Episcopal priest answers...