The most rewarding part of my job as canon pastor and chaplain to the Beacon is the gift our clients teach me about appreciating small things during adversity. I have learned that through the tinted lens of homelessness stands an opportunity to truly experience a deeper appreciation for the life...

More than a hundred years ago, there was a little girl who lived in a happy house. She was the sixth of nine children. Her mother and father kept a house full of joy, full of music and singing, of love and laughter. And then when she was eight years old, her father suddenly died. Darkness fell...

The Season of Advent is always upon us according to St. Bernard. Throughout St. Bernard’s theology we hear the theme of the “three Advents” of Christ.  The first Advent is one in which [Christ] comes to seek and to save that which was lost. The third is one in which He...

My father, Armstrong Price, was chief of a Standard Oil exploration party in 1921, operating west out of Tampico, Mexico.  It was not a pacified area, with local bandit chiefs left over from the Mexican Revolution ruling their areas.  The bandit chiefs made money kidnapping the crew chiefs of...

Every morning when I drop Sabine off at school, which is at our church, she likes to first go to "Big Church," the historic sanctuary, and then "Little Church," the contemporary worship space where we have kids service. I cherish these quiet times with her, when the lights...

Since childhood, I have been plagued by debilitating digestive disorders. I visited physician after physician, none of whom could successfully treat or even rightly diagnose my condition. In the past eight months, however, my illness became a great deal more severe, and it became clear that...

[Diolog Magazine]  I am a retired priest from the Diocese of Texas. In the 1980s I was rector of St. Augustine of Hippo, Galveston.I also had a full time position as an assistant director at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.     Being both inside and...

The Rev. Lacy Largent jokingly refers to herself as the “surf and turf priest” of the Diocese of Texas. Many Episcopalians may recognize her from her turf role as spiritual director at Camp Allen, but few have seen her surfing the docks of the Port of Houston as port chaplain at the Howard T...