Isaac Isidor Rabi was a Nobel Prize winner scientist. As he was growing up, his mother would ask him every day, did you ask a good question today in the school? He grew up to be a great guy because he asked some great and interesting questions. Here are some …
This past week was one of the most important weeks in history for all who believe in the story of Jesus and subsequently the story of Christians. But first we have to believe in the person of Jesus and all that he was and came to be. Without the first …
How many of you had a chance to watch the movie, Indiana Jones and the last Crusade? In that movie we find the impatience of a Nazi general and the patience that pays off for the American journalist, Jones. The gist of the story is something like this. People are …
“On this campus there is to be absolutely no physical contact of any kind between male and female students. There is only one legitimate exception to this rule. If a male student happens to see a female student about to fall to the ground, it is permissible to touch her …
Memoir: Write One Today Today in the first reading, we heard the end of a memoir. The last words of David and his experience. You know the story of David. David had humble beginnings, interesting and exciting life and a glorious and powerful ending. If I write his story I …
“If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey towards the stars”, G. K. Chesterton. Plant a seed along the way to grace and it will sprout from under your foot to the shades of …
Remember, the wind uproots us and transplants us and it blows where it wills and all will be changed, including the meaning of words that constrains the understanding of even God. Be born again is seeing and hearing, being and living deeper than we are allowed by our limited world.
In the actual preaching he often adds a few comments and connections as inspired that are not in this text.The following sermon is a working manuscript from which Fr. Jos Tharakan, Rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Russellville, AR, Preached today. In the jungles of South America in 1978 there …
Exodus 1:8-2:10 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our …
Welive in a multi-cultural, multi-religious world. We have had many of these religions for a long time and some are still emerging. Our understanding of self, individual fulfillment, and interpretation of history has given us even more freedom to make new groups and belief systems and after 38000 Christian denominations …