Dan
Why Do I Have to Change the World?
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and...
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Dan
- Oct 9, 2020
- 3 min
The Essential Sadness of Art
Photo credit: Piers Nye (Creative Commons) By Jeff Goins (https://goinswriter.com/sad-art/) Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a...
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Dan
- Sep 23, 2020
- 5 min
Encountering the Faces of Jesus
Holy Face and Ten Names of God, Dirc van Delf, circa 1404 For now, we can only see a dim and blurry picture of things, as when we stare...
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Dan
- Sep 16, 2020
- 4 min
I Stand By The Door
Artist's Mother Opening a Door, Édouard Vuillard, 1891 Samuel Moor Shoemaker III, DD, STD (1893–1963) was a priest of the Episcopal...
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Dan
- Sep 6, 2020
- 2 min
Try to Love One Another Right Now
"Smile On Your Brother", Mural on Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, NY by Rico Fonseca Besides this, you know what time it is, how it...
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Dan
- Aug 21, 2020
- 8 min
Conversations in a Porch
A thoughtful essay from Arsenio Rodriguez in the Wall Street International Magazine, https://wsimag.com/feature/62082-conversations-in-a...
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Dan
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
If These Walls Could Speak
"If These Walls Could Speak" by Dan Oberg, artist's footprints, watercolor & ink pen, 2020 I had the privilege of participating in an...
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Dan
- Jul 24, 2020
- 2 min
How Few Are the Lovers of the Cross of Jesus
A Reading from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a' Kempis Jesus has many who love His Kingdom in Heaven, but few who bear His Cross...
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Dan
- Jul 19, 2020
- 2 min
Deepening Lives Through Community
“Deepening lives through volunteer service, social justice, spiritual practice, and intentional community.” Did you know the Episcopal...
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Dan
- Jul 5, 2020
- 3 min
Idolatry of Ideology
Ideology, noun 1. a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. Each...
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Dan
- Jun 28, 2020
- 3 min
Grief's Patient Friend
“Like the rest of the world, I thought, ‘I can sit around listening to my own fears and anxieties and uncertainties or I can do something...
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Dan
- Jun 27, 2020
- 4 min
Movements Happen When We Discover We're Not Alone
This is an excerpt of a soon to be released book, Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church Right Where You Are by Tim Soerens,...
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Dan
- Jun 21, 2020
- 5 min
I Love a Child, but She is Afraid of Me
This is a short story that I first read years ago by Walt Wangerin. I was immediately struck by the brutal honesty of the piece,...
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Dan
- Jun 16, 2020
- 2 min
"That's All I Want"
Contemporary Justice and Child, Symeon Shimin, 1940 Great Hall, Dept. Of Justice, Washington DC People hate this kind of talk. Raw...
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Dan
- Jun 9, 2020
- 5 min
St. Columba Day, Our Home & Thin Places
Let the sea make a noise and all that is in it, * the lands and those who dwell therein. Let the rivers clap their hands, * ...
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Dan
- Jun 7, 2020
- 3 min
Lover's Lament (A paraphrase of Psalm 13. For Jolyn.)
I How long, O Eternal One? How long will You make us wait for justice? Forever? How long will You remain silent? Are you speaking in a...
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Dan
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
Lukewarm Acceptance
First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the...
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Dan
- May 23, 2020
- 1 min
Rise With Us!
This past January, Lois and I attended the Episcopal Camps & Conference Centers Annual Conference, held at the Claggett Center in...
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Dan
- May 17, 2020
- 2 min
Promises Made, Promises Kept
Form them in the practices and postures that I have taught you, and show them how to follow the commands I have laid down for you. And I...
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Dan
- May 12, 2020
- 4 min
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
This old Victorian rhyme, still honored to this day by many brides, signifies the tradition of warding off ill-fortune by the wearing of...
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