Dear Friends, Please enjoy this Monday edition of Aloha Fridays with Fr. Tim. It is the homily I preached at the late Christmas Eve service last night at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist in Glendale, Arizona. I
As we approach the final days of Advent and we finish our final preparations for Christmas, I want to ask you to take a moment to pause and to reflect on something. I want you to think about what
Liturgical Mindfulness in a Dynamic Church Worship in the Episcopal Church takes place during something called a liturgy. This is not unique to the Episcopal Church. Our Christian cousins in the Latin Rite, the Orthodox Rite, Lutheranism, and a
In Defense of Ebenezer Scrooge When I was a kid, one of my favorite things about December was that the television networks played all the best Christmas specials. I remember watching the stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the animated