by Andres Herrera | Apr 12, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
Roz Chast, one of my favorite cartoonists whose work is published in The New Yorker magazine, wrote a memoir of her life with her aging parents as together they dealt with the painful decisions surrounding aging and moving from a cherished home and...
by Andres Herrera | Apr 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
There are ChristiansWho have hysterical reactionsAs if the world had slipped out of God’s hands.They are violentAs if they were risking everything. But we believe in history.The world is not a roll of the diceOn its way toward chaos.A new world has begun to...
by Andres Herrera | Mar 22, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
This year my Lenten discipline took a different turn. I decided that I would feel my feelings and come to name them. This is no small task because I, like many of us, often live noticing only a small band of emotion. Fear, anger, sadness, happiness come readily....
by Andres Herrera | Mar 8, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
This Sunday St. Stephen’s will have the privilege of hosting the Very Reverend Dr. David Monteith, the 40th Dean of Caterbury (post Reformation) Cathedral at our forum in the Havens Center at 9:30 and as our preacher at the 10:30 a.m. Eucharist. Canterbury...
by Andres Herrera | Jan 26, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
One of my joys of coming out of COVID is that I get to go to movie theatres again and see films on the big screen. I love being enveloped by the darkness, surrounded by the sound. Films take me out of my world and transport me to another place and...