Dear People of Christ Church, Last Sunday both of our Lent groups were full steam ahead, with hearty conversations and good thinking. Our Sunday 9:15 group is on ssje.org, a series of daily videos from the brothers mailed to you
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Lenten Reflection, Repentance, Formation
Dear People of Christ Church, Last Sunday both of our Lent groups were full steam ahead, with hearty conversations and good thinking. Our Sunday 9:15 group is on ssje.org, a series of daily videos from the brothers mailed to you
An Invitation to Joy
Dear People of Christ Church, Here’s what the Book of Common Prayer says to us this week in the “invitation to a holy Lent” in the liturgy for Ash Wednesday: [You are invited], therefore, in the name of the Church,
Swimming During the Rain Storm
Dear People of Christ Church, This week I’m looking forward to talking with our kids about Lent in the children’s sermon this Sunday. It’s such an interesting opportunity to think about moving toward Lent with kids, who don’t have any
Annual Meeting Blessings
A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole
Being and Doing Together
Dear People of Christ Church, With the Baptism of Jesus, we’re swimming in the epiphany waters if the revelation of Jesus Christ as God’s beloved Son. Beloved, delighted in, enjoyed, God’s own longed- for firstborn. Jesus, at this point, hasn’t
Stations of the Cross
Dear People of Christ Church, I’m writing this afternoon thinking of all the newness of the year at the same time as I think of the way the past stays with us. The Stations of the Cross we received from
Now, Take a Deep Breath
Dear People of Christ Church, Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. Tomorrow is the end of this long Advent journey, with John the Baptist and Mary and all the rest. From Alicia’s Children’s sermon about how God makes straight the crooked places
New Visitations
Dear People of Christ Church, For this year’s Advent series, we tried something new, an intergenerational Bible Study. From week to week, we looked at the different stories of the origins of Jesus Christ—the traditional nativity story in Luke, with
The Light Shines in the Darkness
Dear People of Christ Church, This week I’m reeling a little from the horrifying rhetoric coming out of certain corners of Christianity and American politics. Whether Jerry Falwell, Jr. exhorting the students of Liberty University to carry guns to “end