Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.