The windows are in!  Three windows, first covered with a dossal and then with a wall many decades ago, have been restored and reinstalled in the east end of the chapel.  The middle window, the largest of the three, is of the angel standing in front of the empty tomb.  At his feet are linens folded and a jar for anointing oil.  His right hand is extended in blessing and his eyes tell the story, “He is not here.  He is Risen.”  This window, made with two panes of glass, …

The reading from Acts on Ascension Day (Acts 1.1-11) has this after Jesus ascended:
suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven?
Does this sound at all familiar?  Remember what St Luke recorded in his Easter narrative?  Take a look:
suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead?
Catch that?  In both stories …

Yesterday in USA Today, the front page statistical snapshot was of our experience of the supernatural.  Over 4,000 adults were surveyed in August of last year and 29% affirmed some connection with the dead.  Lesser numbers believe they’ve seen a ghost and consulted with a medium.  I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that reason why Halloween and scary stories/movies/etc. resonate with us so consistently is that there is something to all this.  I need to qualify that.  Do I believe that there are spirits of …