Worthiness — Getting it Right While I’ve been spared being told face-to-face by a Catholic priest that I’m “not worthy,” the Episcopal approach is less direct, and from my varnished pew, less honest. Witness our “Prayer of Humble Access,” which we all recite: “We are not worthy so much as…

I have always suspected that Jesus wasn’t really a carpenter. While he is referred to as a “carpenter” — it happens only once. In fact, the Greek word, “tekton,” translated as “carpenter,” refers to numerous manual jobs. We Episcopalians can have a problem with Jesus as a “carpenter.” I mean…

In my forty years as an Episcopal priest I never liked going to church. In fact, for the twenty-five years before that, I never liked going to church. …