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Rector's Blog: Church Right Now
Dear Church,
First things first: I love you and I miss being with you. We believe in a God who is mightily present in our lives and in our world – a God who not only keeps watch over us when we work or watch or weep, but also shares with us ...
Read MoreRector's Blog: When Love Shows Up
We don't get to decide when Love shows up.
And we don't get to decide what it looks like.
Throughout this season of Lent, the church is reading a lot from the Gospel according to John. These readings focus on something very specific and, it...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Welcome to the Apocalypse
This is not The End. It’s a scary time, to be sure. Maybe you’re scared. My fear comes in waves. Mostly I’m fine, and then a wash of insecurity takes over and overwhelms me. It ebbs, though, and I’m back to mostly fine. I’m an extrover...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Built for Connection
Yesterday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine held a press conference where he, alongside Director of the Ohio Department of Health, Dr. Amy Acton, set before us the current circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. They also gave us very clear guidelines a...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Letting Go of Being Good
This Lent at Church of the Redeemer, we enter into our second year of involvement with an initiative called Becoming Beloved Community . Becoming Beloved Community is the Episcopal Church’s long-term commitment to racial healing, justice...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Fasting is Remembering
I’m not good at fasting, and most of my life I haven’t bothered to understand the point of it. I have mostly used Lent as either an opportunity to lose weight, prove to annoying friends that I can give up Diet Coke for 40 days, or a chance to...
Read MoreRector's Blog: We Become Sent
There is a moment during Jesus’ ministry when he sends his followers out into the world ahead of him. Their job is ostensibly to share life with people in such a way that others know God’s Kingdom is real, present, and active. When they Go ou...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Closing the Gap
Near the beginning of his ministry in Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus calls his followers together and casts a vision for his whole ministry. Christians often call this The Sermon on the Mount . This sermon, this extended discourse by Jesus, is a defi...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Learning to Love
Last year when we were introducing the Becoming Beloved Community initiative to Redeemer, I devoted a class to the Biblical basis for racial justice, healing, and reconciliation. More than one person came to me afterward with a response that amou...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Rest is a Joke, Right?
The rule of thumb for how long a kid should be in time out is one minute for every year old they are. So, my 6-year-old goes to time out for 6 minutes, and my 9-year-old goes to time out for 9 minutes, and so on. They are horrified by this, you k...
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