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This week, I’m still mulling over what it means to “do” Lent-what offering could we possibly make, what could possibly be meaningful to God? One idea from Scripture that has struck me particularly forcefully lately is a line we heard

One week in, I hope you’ve been able to enter into Lent in a peaceable way. I almost wrote offering hopes for a “good start” to Lent, which sounds like it’s a race or something we’re trying to accomplish, which

As you know, next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, but there is some partying to be done before then. We’re doing both jazz Mardi Gras (Friday, 6pm, Steve Taddeo concert) and taking up the traditional English practice of eating pancakes before

Last Sunday in my sermon, I was thinking with you about how in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus was trying to bring his listeners somewhere. He wasn’t just teaching, he was preaching. Our selection was not the nice and

This week, as I was talking with you in my sermon on Sunday, I’m still thinking about the interplay of church as organization and church as people. The buzzword in church circles is “missional”-the focus is on how we are

This week, I’m mulling over all things episcopal: episcopal in the sense of “Episcopal,” as in, our church, and “episcopal,” in the sense of “related to things relating to bishops.” (Greek episcopos=overseer=bishop). The slate of bishop candidates in our diocese

Can we please stop talking about Sheryl Sandberg and Lean In? There have been so many excellent critiques of the book, from Susan Faludi on Baffler talking about feminism and capitalism to bell hooks talking about the white supremacist capitalist

Thanks to everyone who stayed for our annual meeting last week; we had 45 in attendance, the best so far. Jerome, Jennifer, Sarah, James, Salom, Kristin, Courney, Joane, and Pam all signed our member book: welcome, Christ Churchers! We also

This week, I’m sending along my part for the annual report – please take a minute to read the whole document. Our annual meeting is after church this Sunday. We’ll elect new vestry members, welcoming Michael Mailman and Pam Hopkins

At long last, the slate for candidates for bishop for the Diocese of Massachusetts has been released. Our own Sasha Killewald was a member of the discernment committee that worked on compiling the slate, so thank you, Sasha, for all