From the Chapter
In the Days of Herod the King
By Jack Franicevich, Candidate for Master’s in Sacred Theology (STM), Nashotah House
Herod schemes to snuff out the truth so that he doesn’t have to face it. You know the story. He sends the wise men out to find Jesus. Herod, like the Serpent in the garden, becomes a deceiver. Herod will not seek first the kingdom of heaven, and he will not seek heaven’s righteousness. Rather, he seeks to subject the Lord Jesus to his own rule. Jesus is the true light of the world, the only one in whom is life, and in whose broken body alone the warring world will be reconciled. But Herod prefers darkness to light.
The Little Texas Church that Could
How would they pay for their land, their building, and their priest? This was not an easy time for any of the parishioners as they were in the middle of a severe, seven-year drought.
A Leader, Not a Follower: Bishop Kemper and Apostolic Ministry
By Mark Michael
The Sunday after the Ascension, May 24, marks a century and half since the death of the Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, the Episcopal Church’s first missionary bishop. The current crisis won’t allow for a proper celebration, though perhaps a few pilgrims will gather by his tomb at Nashotah that day for reverent, if socially distanced, prayers of thanksgiving.