Years ago my wife was given a T-shirt for helping with some community or church event. The caption on it said in large letters: “TRUTH MATTERS!” I found it somewhat disconcerting that she frequently wore it to bed as a nightshirt. What did that mean? A while back (obviously I have some difficulty in, as they say, “striking while the iron is hot” on this blog) Continue reading
Father Larry
Do I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
St. Paul to the Corinthians
I have been thinking about apologies. And just now I remembered a cold winter morning in Amarillo, Texas, snug in our little garage apartment, when Brenda, my wife of only a few months, said in that matter of fact way of hers that I have come to value over the years, “Why is it that if we argue I always say I am sorry and you never do?” Continue reading
Father Larry
Someone recently asked me, as if my opinion mattered, what I thought of the Pope recruiting dissident Anglicans – actually soliciting whole communities of, among others, disaffected and out of joint Episcopalians. I said I thought it was a great idea – very entrepreneurial of him. In fact, I have no problem with what is often referred to pejoratively as proselytizing. Continue reading
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