Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 39
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 One of the more cynical axioms of the Law of Unintended Consequences is that any attempt to make things better can usually be relied upon to make things worse. A particularly cruel example of this took place in New York City’s Germantown some years ago when well-meaning neighbors attempted to help the daughter of a . . . → Read More: Privacy rules designed to defy common sense What a wonderful weekend it was—the Rededication of the parish church, the Setting Apart of two subdeacons, the Confirmation of four candidates, and the Ordination of two priests and a deacon! And it being St Stephen’s, celebrations would not have been complete without the two terrific parties. Congratulations go to our two new associate . . . → Read More: My thanks to you—from the bottom of my heart! 
Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 38 St Stephen’s was founded by the Baltimore branch of the Prayer Book Society in 1982. It was a typically dogged Maryland response to an edict by the Episcopal Diocese banning the use of the 1928 edition of the Prayer Book and mandating by fiat the new book of 1979. The new book was not entirely . . . → Read More: How we came to be the way that we are
Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 37 Truth to tell, we arrived at St Stephen’s quite by accident. Indeed, we first visited the parish in 1988 when I served as a “supply priest,” on a spur of the moment request from Bishop Albion Knight, then its Episcopal overseer. Bishop Knight was the executive director of the now defunct Church Information Center, . . . → Read More: In the beginning, or how we came to Baltimore
Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 36  The last of our Silly Summer Suppers is behind us and it’s time to give our chefs a break. Thank you to all who cooked, set-up, cleaned-up and, most important, attended these enjoyable evenings of good food and good fellowship.  The horrific campaign of slaughter in Iraq and Syria illustrates how wrong we have been to dub the conflict the West has been engaged in since September 11th, 2001, as “The War on Terror.” It is high time we called it what it really is: A war against Islamic extremism. “War on Terror” is . . . → Read More: It is time to call a spade a spade in the Mid East |
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