Pastoral Meanderings

I read a while back “The End of the Imperial Episcopate,” in which Father Jay Scott Newman has some ideas about that which has created a c...

A long article in the WSJ outlines the Generation Z folks who have come of age and are entering the workforce.  So who are they and what...

Sermon preached for Pentecost 25, Proper 27B, on Sunday, November 11, 2018, by the Rev. Daniel M. Ulrich.     We judge the value of thi...

We all know that the Boy Scouts caved on everything from gay scouts and scout leaders to admitting girls to the formerly all boy program. ...

The real danger to bishops and priests, to district presidents and pastors, to clergy and lay is an inflated sense of self-importance.  Ev...

There is a sermon, prominently featured by the Lutheran School of Theology on their web page and Facebook, which illustrates the great fai...

Apparently the Chinese government is moving ahead on the heels of their success with the Vatican.  This time, apparently, they are ...

It is clear that Satan has delighted in some recent victories.  He has scandalized Christian morality with the constant news of sexual abu...

The story generally is that the ordination of women is unrelated to the adoption of same sex marriage and the ordination of the great variet...

Sermon for All Saints (Observed) preached on Sunday, November 4, 2018.      It is a small but important thing that we confess in the ba...

Christian funerals are much like non-Christian ones and their cemeteries much like non-Christians ones.  In some respects, we have become ...

In 1950, the Roman Catholic diocese of Los Angeles numbered 832,375. In 2016, the same diocese had a population of 4,392,000.  Italy, wit...