The Ascension: Belief with Head and Heart

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Christ Church

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

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Called to Rejoice: Equal marriage, step by step

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Christ Church

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

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The wide and wonderful Anglican maybe

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Christ Church

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

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Life and death questions

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Christ Church

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.

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God’s Vision, our vision

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Christ Church

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

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Easter is a Way of Life

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Christ Church

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,

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What Holy Week ask us…

Posted on April 17, 2014 by admin

By now, you’ve heard my pitch about why you should do Holy Week, so this year I’m not going to give it. The fact is, I don’t know why you should do Holy Week. I’m thinking about why these stories

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Memories from Marcia Luce

Posted on April 11, 2014 by admin

This week, we’re going back in the archives to a piece written by parishioner Marcia Luce in Lent 2011. Marcia died in November but I think she would be OK with us spending some more time with this! With Palm

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Where IS Jesus?

Posted on April 4, 2014 by admin

This week in our Tuesday 6:00 group, we had a conversation about Jesus. We were kind of all over the place. We were responding to this quote from our book, The Restoration Project: If you were to imagine that Jesus

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About Holy Week

Posted on April 1, 2014 by admin

What is Holy Week? Holy week is the week between Palm Sunday and Easter. It begins with Maundy Thursday, continues on Good Friday, and culminates in the Great Vigil of Easter on Saturday Night. These are sometimes called by the

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