The Rev. Mike Angell is rector of The Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion in St. Louis.
“Oh, what’s in a name?” Probably, this is the closest I’ll get to playing Shakespeare’s Juliet. Standing here, in a dress, above you on this pulpit. “Oh, what’s in a name?” Poor Juliet, alone on her balcony with all her teenage angst, overrun by hormones, pining for Romeo. “What’s in a name?” she asks. A... Continue Reading →
“Go therefore therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” Within this lesson is an invitation and an assurance, but to hear them we need to unpack. Before we can hear the invitation and the assurance we need to unpack our anxieties... Continue Reading →
The verbs in today’s Gospel invite us to join God in adventurous action. The Logos is not some static mystery simply to be contemplated. God is not a beautiful noun that doesn't do anything. John's prologue invites us to see God as the "Verbum", the verb.
