Milestones, Not Millstones
I have experienced two life events in recent weeks that have had a major positive impact on me. One was my birthday late last month, my 68th. That is not usually considered a milestone natal day, but... Read More »
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Doing What We Don’t Want to Do
The bottom line here…is that I am increasingly devoting more time to the generation and recording of data and less time to the educational substance of what the data is supposed to measure.... Read More »
Airline Seats and Being Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
During the past few weeks, conflicts associated with reclining airplane seats have forced three flights to land prematurely. Many have speculated that what these conflicts have in common relates to... Read More »
No Time to Think
OK. I admit it. I didn’t always pay attention in chapel. Sometimes the quality of light through the windows caught my eye. Sometimes I found myself pondering the kindergartners in the front... Read More »
Praying on the Past Year
In her characteristic way of making theology accessible, the writer Anne Lamott identifies three types of prayer: Help! Thanks! and Wow! Each one of us, no doubt, can recall times when we have asked... Read More »
Rooted in Values, Open to New Traditions
Earlier this year, some high school students at Grace Church School in New York City were asked about their hopes for the future of Grace Church School. One answered, “Rooted in values but open... Read More »
Captive Audiences
As many times as I have seen it, I never ceased to be in awe of it: a church, a chapel, a room full of students, taking up virtually every space to be found, gathering for school chapel, sometimes... Read More »
May Energy
I was lucky to visit All Saints’ Episcopal Day School in Phoenix, Arizona this past week while the spring art show was on display. As I entered the art studio, I noticed a simple, hand-painted... Read More »
Be the Compass
Perhaps it was no coincidence that, as Holy Week approached, David Brooks’ April 8 Op-Ed piece “What Suffering Does” immediately shot to the top of the New York Times’... Read More »
Getting a Spiritual Life: Beyond the Chaplain’s Position Description
I recently received an inquiry from a school (not an Episcopal school, I should add!) regarding an opening the school has for a chaplaincy position. Like many such inquiries, this one was fueled by... Read More »