Practicing Resurrection

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Christ Church

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

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Looking Forward to Our New Year

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Christ Church

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

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Follow the Path of Love

Posted on July 28, 2016 by Christ Church

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

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Praying for Salvation, Working for Justice

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Christ Church

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

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Love, the Motive for All Good

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Christ Church

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

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Hearing God in Sheer Silence

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Christ Church

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

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Hear Our Prayer

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Christ Church

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

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In the Season of Church Retreats

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Christ Church

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

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Finding our Moral Footing

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Christ Church

Dear People of Christ Church, This week, our Episcopal Church Class will take on “Contemporary Moral Issues,” and wow, there seem to be a lot of them swirling around. On Sunday in my sermon I mentioned how God had “shown

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Outward and Visible Signs

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Christ Church

Dear People of Christ Church, This week at our Episcopal Church class we talked about the shape of the liturgy. In the Episcopal Church, that’s also to have a conversation about what we believe theologically—we “do” theology as we “do”

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