As you know, next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, but there is some partying to be done before then. We’re doing both jazz Mardi Gras (Friday, 6pm, Steve Taddeo concert) and taking up the traditional English practice of eating pancakes before
Last Sunday in my sermon, I was thinking with you about how in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus was trying to bring his listeners somewhere. He wasn’t just teaching, he was preaching. Our selection was not the nice and
This week, as I was talking with you in my sermon on Sunday, I’m still thinking about the interplay of church as organization and church as people. The buzzword in church circles is “missional”-the focus is on how we are
This week, I’m mulling over all things episcopal: episcopal in the sense of “Episcopal,” as in, our church, and “episcopal,” in the sense of “related to things relating to bishops.” (Greek episcopos=overseer=bishop). The slate of bishop candidates in our diocese
Can we please stop talking about Sheryl Sandberg and Lean In? There have been so many excellent critiques of the book, from Susan Faludi on Baffler talking about feminism and capitalism to bell hooks talking about the white supremacist capitalist
