Dear People of Christ Church, This week, I’ve been thinking about vocation, defined in such a lovely way by Frederick Buechner as “the meeting place between your deep gladness and the world’s deep need.” Over the weekend, I attended our
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Holy In-Between
Dear People of Christ Church, This week, our place in the holy in-between time after Ascension continues. I spent the better part of last week’s piece in this space outing myself as a potential heretic, and I suspect there will
The Ascension: Belief with Head and Heart
Dear People of Christ Church, Today is Ascension Day, which you will be forgiven for not realizing as the Thursday 40 days after Easter. It’s one of the odder days of observance in the Christian tradition-we’ll hear that Scripture from
Called to Rejoice: Equal marriage, step by step
Dear People of Christ Church, This week, I’m all aflutter about the decision in my home state of Pennsylvania to allow same sex marriage. Of course, it’s been the law in my chosen state for ten years (we moved here
The wide and wonderful Anglican maybe
Dear People of Christ Church, This week in our Episcopal Church class I was reminded, as always when I pay attention, how very grateful I am to be part of the Anglican Tradition. Every church has something wonderful about it-the
Life and death questions
Dear People of Christ Church, I hope to see a lot of you this week-tomorrow, the art show, Saturday, the release of our own Gene Burkart’s posthumous work of collected essays (see below), and Sunday at the Mother’s Day Walk.
God’s Vision, our vision
Dear People of Christ Church, Blessings on your continued celebration of Easter! We had a wonderful celebration of Holy Week and Easter at Christ Church-our attendance for our Holy Week services keep growing, and this Palm Sunday was one of
Easter is a Way of Life
Rev. Sara’s piece in the Waltham News Tribune, April 18, 2014 Forty (or so) days ago, I wrote in this space about Ash Wednesday-for Christians, the beginning of a long Lenten journey culminating in the holy days of Maundy Thursday,