Mike Angell

Good Friday

(This is a meditation I was asked to write for the Episcopal Church’s Young Adults’ email listserv for today.) Psalm 22:1a My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Today is Good Friday, and today the tomb is full. Jesus has died a miserable and tortured death. The death of Jesus was not unlikeContinueContinue reading “Good Friday”

Seeing Christ in One Another: The Assembly and Worship

I wrote recently about the experience of worshiping this year in temporary space because of the chapel fire. One of the biggest blessings for me in this time has been directional. Our old Chapel was set up, like most Episcopal Churches, so that the entire assembly faced one direction. Before the changes instituted by theContinueContinue reading “Seeing Christ in One Another: The Assembly and Worship”

Lenten Disciplines

My Lent last year was well planned. My friend Bradley and I had decided to practice the Ignatian examen, to spend a few minutes at the end of each day taking prayerful inventory. For centuries, St. Ignatius and his followers, the Jesuits, have taught this method of taking stock of events in the day toContinueContinue reading “Lenten Disciplines”

Silence, Anxiety, and my Dad, a sermon preached for Epiphany 8

We are not a people easily given to silence. We are an anxious people, full of action physical and mental. Silence, for us, has to be learned. We are called “human beings,” but sometimes “human beings” functions more as an aspirational statement. Jon Kabat Zinn, a professor of medicine and teacher of meditation more accuratelyContinueContinue reading “Silence, Anxiety, and my Dad, a sermon preached for Epiphany 8”