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An Invitation to Joy

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Christ Church

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

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Christ Church

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

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Christ Church

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

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Christ Church

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

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Christ Church

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

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Christ Church

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

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Christ Church

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

Prayer and Action

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Christ Church

Dear People of Christ Church, When in my sermon on Sunday I talked about the place of fear in American culture, about the latest shooting in Colorado when a gunman murdered three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic, I did

Thanksgiving Blessings

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Christ Church

Dear People of Christ Church, Whenever I send out the e-crier during Thanksgiving week, I always share the litany from the prayer book for thanksgiving—for a secular holiday, Thanksgiving is a very theological idea. The other thing I always share

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