Author Archives: Fr. Matt Rucker

Times of great sickness and plague are nothing new, especially for Anglican Christians. At the time that Thomas Cranmer wrote the Great Litany, which includes prayers that God would spare…

Hope in a Prison of Despair – Evelyn De Morgan, 1877. Public Domain   Watching the response to the Coronavirus has been like looking at ourselves in a mirror. I…

In our last worship service together for what I hope, and constantly pray, is not a long time, our final hymn was the great 20th-century hymn, God of Grace and…

In 1527, a plague reached the German University town of Wittenberg, where Martin Luther served as Pastor and Professor. Students were made to go home and quarantined there, while Luther…

One unusual blessing that I continue to be grateful for is the presence of refugees in our church, and I interpret their presence as a sign of health for our…