“ cantus firmus : A Fixed Prayer for All Occasions, Part 5” Rev. Dr. David A. Kaden >>Open us, O God, to learn, to wonder, and then to be transformed so the cosmos looks different. Amen.<< Stephen Hawking began his book A Brief History of Time with a story about Bertrand Russell, who once gave […]

“ cantus firmus : A Fixed Prayer for All Occasions, Part 4” Rev. Dr. David A. Kaden >>O God, lead us not into….deliver us from….Help us. Amen.<< Four years before his untimely death, Christopher Hitchens wrote a series of humorous essays for Vanity Fair magazine, titled “On the Limits of Self-Improvement.”[1] In those essays, he […]