by Guy Sayles | Jul 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Have you ever tried a geographical cure for your problems? Just move to a new city and leave your problems in the old one. The difficulties you’ve had and the challenges you’ve faced in the past are the fault of the clueless employers and insensitive coworkers...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, July 18, was “World Listening Day,” and it might be a commentary on my own failure to listen well that I didn’t hear about it until the day had passed. The World Listening Project sponsors World Listening Day as a part of its mission to encourage...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Wendell Berry says that there are things about a farm which a farmer learns only by living on the land over time, tending to it in season and out of season, watching how the wind sweeps across it, observing how water flows over it, seeing the tracks of animals that...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
As Independence Day approaches, and as electioneering gets as intense as this summer heat wave, I’m hoping against hope for an outbreak of civility. Civility is a public virtue which is simple to praise and complicated to practice. It’s easy to dream about and...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Even when we don’t acknowledge it, human beings long for God. I believe that we’re born with a desire for the divine. St. Augustine’s well-known prayer voices this longing: “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
FDR famously said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Similarly, I sometimes think the church’s greatest threat is the church itself. These days, many people are intensely interested in Jesus, but, at the same time, profoundly disinterested in the...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
This past Sunday our Youth Choir, under the creative and visionary direction of Clark Sorrells, and with the support of 80-plus adult volunteers, presented (magnificently!) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Jesus Christ Superstar...
by Guy Sayles | May 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
The opening page of the sermon I preached yesterday, as part of a service that combined celebration of Pentecost with the recognition of high school graduates British humorist P. G. Wodehouse said: “I always advise people never to give advice.” His advice about...
by Guy Sayles | May 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
As is well-known, in a debate over the payment of taxes, Jesus asserted that we are to “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” George Weigel called this “a revolutionary text” [“The Christian Citizen and Democracy”...
by Guy Sayles | May 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Sufi poet Hafiz said: “Fear is the cheapest room in the house/I would like to see you living/In better conditions. . . . God wants to see/More love and playfulness in your eyes/For that is your greatest witness to the Divine.” Fear is the cheapest, shabbiest, and...
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