Dear Parishioners and Friends of St. James, On this typical fall day, I send you warm greetings from my study—shelter-in-place, virtual liturgies, longing for communal gatherings—while the neighbor’s miniature dog reminds me that we live still in community. I report that as required by diocesan canons, I have completed via ZOOM part two of our …

16 Pentecost​   Ps. 105Ö1 6, 37 – 45​Exodus 16:2 – 15​Philippians 1:21 – 30​Matthew 20:1 – 16 So the last will be first, and the first last.  Matt. 20:16   In the few short years that I have been privileged to serve you, you have often heard me say that I find the Bible …

Dear Parishioners and Friends of St. James, While spending some time this past week, alone, in the resplendent and spacious sanctuary which defines St. James and listening to the muffled sound of traffic on Broadway and after returning home to read an email from a friend-musician in a not too distant parish who inquired about …

15 Pentecost Psalm 114; Exodus 14:19 – 31; Romans 14:1 – 12; Matthew 18:21 -35   Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.”  Matt. 18:22   And so, we begin the countdown or, more precisely and more accurately, the “count-up”:  486…, 487…, 488…, 489…, 490!  That …