Day: September 17, 2017

Jesus said; “call no man father on earth, for you have one Father, the one in heaven” (Matthew 23:9). Yet, in the Episcopal Church, which has ordained women as priests for more than 40 years – 40 years! – male priests are still often called “Father.” As a result, the church has not developed forms of address that work for both male and female priests.

When glass or glaze on clay cools, it sometimes crazes – a term for the tiny fractures in the glass which occur as the clay and the glass cool and shrink at different rates. Is it possible that this phenomenon happens in life too? When we have too much pressure applied to our lives, are there fractures?