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Every March, at this time of year, I confess Hypatia. During the season of Lent, when about the 14 and 15 of March we have no saint on our Episcopal Church calendar, I set aside a day for the confession of the sin of those who, in the name of Christ, brutally murdered Hypatia, a…

It was a joy to be present today as the House of Deputies confirmed the House of of Bishops election of Bp Michael Curry of the Diocese of North Carolina as our new Presiding Bishop. Bp Curry will lead us over the next nine years, nurturing the bishops and dioceses of The Episcopal Church and…

“Always we begin again,” said St. Benedict. This blog post after a long, quiet absence here is my humble restart, a new beginning, again, in my attempt to link social media and my written expressions. I’m writing plenty; monthly articles for our newsletters at Saint Michael’s, communications for our diocesan search for a new bishop, as…

Lakeside Lodge Entabeni. That’s where we are tonight. We traveled half a day out of Johannesburg to get here. The safari jeeps met us at the edge of the land preserve and we said goodbye to our coach bus. We spent the second half of our day on safari. Yes, church pastors on a game…

The view from atop Table Mountain I know we think of the Fertile Crescent as the Cradle of Civilization but this southern tip of the continent we still get the rarest of biodiversity in the plant world and among the human languages spoken, the native Xhosa carries the heritage of the most ancient speech. Table…

Khayelitsha is an informal Township outside of Cape Town. One of the locals near my hotel tells me it’s not the worst, there are actually worse places in South Africa, and he names a few off the top of his head. I try to wrap my head around how it could be any worse. Recalling…

Basic ethics asks that I look at what I’m doing and multiply that by everyone in the room and see if it’s sustainable. Could everyone live like me? Rev Alan Storey of the Central Methodist Mission in Cape Town says we would need two planets to sustain the lifestyle of the average white westerner for…