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Celebrating Ten Years of Father Bernie Poppe’s Ministry in Maplewood
No comments on Celebrating Ten Years of Father Bernie Poppe’s Ministry in MaplewoodTen years ago this week, the Rev. Bernard W. Poppe led his first service as Rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church. I still remember how he started his first sermon.
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No Going Back: Reflections on Gay Pride 2012
I was struck, in a very positive way, by the pervasiveness of corporate sponsorship: Coca-Cola, Macy’s, Delta Airlines, AT&T, Citigroup, Target and New York Life. The buy-in from the titans of commerce testifies to the…
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Gay Pride Month at St. George’s Starts With Forum for Former Leader of GLAAD
“Standing behind every harassed child is a whole lot of clueless adults…. There are certain people who don’t want to be anything other than clueless. Those are the people we will never get. But converting…
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Pepper Spray Incident Shows Why OWS Has Less “Staying Power” Than Vietnam War Protests
I have very little use for “Occupy Wall Street,” but even so I found the pepper-spray image somewhat disturbing. Then I mentally shrugged. It may have been excessive, but no matter how the police break…
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She’s My Summer Love in the Spring, Fall and Winter
Eleven years ago today, on a perfect sunny autumn afternoon, the Web Goddess and I were married at St. George’s Church. The first time I sang to her was a couple of years before that.
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On Gay Marriage, NY vs. NJ, and the Maplewood Bubble
Same-sex marriage is a basic civil rights issue, and the only acceptable outcome is full marriage equality. With every passing year America will bend further in that direction. Faster, please.
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Processing bin Laden’s Death in a Spiritual Context
The Rev. Bernard Poppe, my priest and friend, is more liberal than I am. (Ditto for 98% of his flock in the deep blue town of Maplewood, NJ.) So when Bernie started his sermon on…
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Preparations for Easter at St. George’s
Much thanks to Maplewood Patch editor Mary Mann for taking the visual images from St. George’s Palm Sunday observance and turning it into a spritely and thorough announcement of the upcoming Easter services. Cranky political…
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They Looked at a Hillside and Envisioned a Church
Nearly nine decades ago some citizens of Maplewood, New Jersey came together in a spirit of faith and community to begin planning a major new Episcopal church on a wooded hillside off of Ridgewood Road. …
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Honest Labor: From Mach 2 to Muenster to Madison
In which your scribe rediscovers the redemptive power of work.