In a May 17 headline entitled “Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.,” The New York Times confirmed a well-known trend: the United States is rapidly becoming a multi-racial and... Read More »

Crazy cooks. Big-toothed monsters. Whales in chicken soup with rice. Maurice Sendak defied the notion of a simple, safe world. With childhood as his foil, he explored the fanciful and the... Read More »

I once again had the privilege of hearing the Rev. Paul Lawrence–Wehmiller, this time at the New York State Association of Independent School’s annual Diversity Conference, the theme of... Read More »

On Palm Sunday, the New York Times Magazine carried an interesting article about a woman who identified herself as a “prodigal child,” when it came to churchgoing. As she began, in her... Read More »

As a child, I loved Palm Sunday. While the rest of Lent focused on what we were “giving up,” we actually “got” something on Palm Sunday—a gift from heaven, as it were.... Read More »

Many of us were stunned and shattered by the last week’s death of Dale Regan, head of school at Episcopal School of Jacksonville. I only knew Dale through an occasional email exchange or a... Read More »

At first glance, the recent and intense debate on the Obama administration’s plan to require religiously affiliated institutions, such as hospitals, schools and colleges, to offer birth control... Read More »

Anna Devere Smith is best known for powerful and provocative performances. She is perhaps less well known as an Episcopalian. Smith has just begun a residency at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco... Read More »