Dear Parishioners and Friends of St. James, As too often we equate the term “news” primarily with a recitation of events with negative outcomes, I recall that there are times when “no news is good news.”  That is surely the case this week, in our continued isolation physically from each other.  Unfortunately—no bad news—I was …

Ps. 105:1 – 11, 45b; Genesis 29:15 – 28; Rom. 8:26 – 39; Matt. 13:31 – 33, 44 – 52 “’Have you understood all this?’ They said to him, ‘Yes.’” —Matt 13:51 It wasn’t true then, and it is not true now!  In another era, I recall hearing my contemporaries say, when they got into …

8 Pentecost: Sticks and Stones Dear Good People and Friends of St. James, As I listened this morning to the weather forecast for today, Saturday, and for tomorrow, Sunday, 26 July, it occurred to me that exactly a year ago, our forecasters had suggested that we shelter in place. We shelter this year again in …

Psalm 139:1 – 11, 22 -23; Genesis 28:10 – 19​; Romans 8:12 – 25; Matt. 13:24 – 30, 36 – 43 For the creation waits with eager longing…Romans 8:19 Like the Burma-shave signs posted in another century along our nation’s highways, there is another sign that, according to Paul’s letter to the Romans and Jesus’ parable about …