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Rector's Blog: How We Go Matters
We need to talk about something very timely today: We need to talk about the quarrel over dietary practices in a church in Corinth in the first century. Yes, really. So, here’s what happened: St. Paul started a church in the Greek city of ...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Made To Be A Blessing
You are a blessing. Your very being in this world is a blessing that helps make the world more of what it is meant to be.
This is not true only sometimes, when you are at your best, or when you are living the “right” way. This is n...
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Rector's Blog: Solitude and Solidarity
Communion is so personal. You may be standing in a line with a bunch of people, then kneeling next to a bunch of people, then sitting back down in your seat surrounded by a bunch of people, but when it comes your time to receive the sacrament, it...
Read MoreRector's Blog: What To Do With Prayer
Throughout Easter, my blogs and our podcast, Interrupting Grace , are exploring The Way of Love – a Jesus centered rule of life composed of a set of practices that help to define the Episcopal approach to faith. The 7 practices meant for...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Learning to See God's Story
Eschew Mediocrity. This was the sign that hung above the door in my high school Chemistry teacher's classroom. I loved it. Actually, I didn't know what it meant. I had to go look up "eschew". This was part of the reason I loved it - it challenged...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Turning Toward Love
In the Spring of 1997 Bob Dylan went into the hospital and it wasn't at all clear he'd come out alive. After suffering from intense chest pains, the then 56-year-old was diagnosed with an infection in the sack around his heart brought on by histo...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Way of Love - Quarantine Style!
I remember when I was introduced to The Episcopal Church. I felt connected and at home very quickly, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on why that was. I found myself, and others who were new to this Anglican tradition sharing why we liked it,...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Passion
Christians call the week before Easter Holy Week. During this time it is our custom to observe what we call Jesus’ Passion. I have always been thrown off by this wording – the use of the word Passion. In my mind, Passion is connected to inten...
Read MoreRector'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...
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