Across cultures and centuries people have shouted with joy, “Alleluia, Christ is risen indeed!” We join in ancient rituals, as we renew that passage from death into n...
There is much I do not know about what led up to the arrest of Diane Reiners on Friday, March 13th, allegedly for driving under the influence inside the Holland Tunnel....
As we hear “You are dust and will return to dust,” we remember the cycle of life. All things come from God. God hates nothing that God has made. The lost will find a...
The paths that First Christmas were not all linear. Of course, following the Star was not likely to be a straight path. But it must have been shocking to those Magi that...
Welcome to the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine as we celebrate Christmas! Hear tonight Isaiah's prophecy: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a...
"But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come...
from Acts 2:1-21 I have just returned from Iran. Few Americans – even the many who have spent their lives studying the country or who have been colleagues with Ira...
Across the centuries people have shouted with joy, “Alleluia, Christ is risen indeed!” Now we join in that ancient ritual, as we pass from death into new life. We...
We hear the voice that says to us, “You are dust and will return to dust.” The cycle of life makes clear that we come from and return to God. Do you hear that voice a...
God led those long ago Magi by a star. That was the Divine Way to manifest to the peoples of the earth that something new was happening – heaven breaking into the human...
-Christina Rossetti, Time Flies: A Reading Diary, 1885 Welcome to the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine as we celebrate Christmas! Across the ages we have...
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who lived in a land as dark as death a light has dawned. You have increased their joy and given...