Dear People of Christ Church, This week I’m excited to share the news that our first “Two Priests and a Rabbi Drinking Coffee” open office hours at Café on the Common last week was a success. It sounds like a
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God the Potter
Dear People of Christ Church, In the children’s sermon this past Sunday, we played with clay—our text was the passage from Jeremiah where the prophet talks about God as a potter, forming us. The scripture text gets a little dark—God
Practicing Resurrection
Dear People of Christ Church, It’s the first Thursday of the month, so I was blessed to spend the early morning with the Sisters of Saint Anne and their daily Eucharist, soft boiled egg and toast breakfast following. The sisters
Looking Forward to Our New Year
Dear People of Christ Church, Whenever I’m back from vacation I always start out this message by saying that it’s nice to be back, but that has a different resonance now that I feel more solidly back, knowing that my
Follow the Path of Love
Dear People of Christ Church, I’m back in the office now for two weeks between last week’s trip to Central New York to meet people in advance of the Episcopal election there and my family vacation, which we’re taking the
Praying for Salvation, Working for Justice
Dear People of Christ Church, Last week I was out of the office to attend the Wild Goose Festival, a gathering in the mountains of North Carolina my family and I have attended for the last four years. My shorthand
Love, the Motive for All Good
Dear People of Christ Church, In our Gospel on Sunday, the response to Jesus and his disciples is pretty ambivalent. It seems that people want to follow him, but that they all have something to do first—to care for a
Hearing God in Sheer Silence
Dear People of Christ Church, I’ve been continuing to think about the sound of “sheer silence” that we heard God speaking in to the prophet Elijah in the book of Kings reading for Sunday. At vestry we always have a
Hear Our Prayer
Dear People of Christ Church, As we continue to unfold ourselves, both personally and culturally, from the grief of the violence in Orlando last week, I wanted to share instead of more words, more prayers. Others have offered wonderful words
In the Season of Church Retreats
Dear People of Christ Church, In the “institutional church” structures where I run, this is the season of the long-meeting-masquerading-as-retreat. I serve on several diocesan bodies, and we are all having our annual “retreats” this time of year—actually, just really