Saint John continues our late-summer Gospel readings with Jesus feeding the ancient crowds with bread, and feeding us with his Word. We are confronted again with the ‘either-or’ questions of discipleship we have been...
Trinity Sunday is the great hinge between the two halves of the liturgical year: The incarnation of Christ, and Our response of discipleship. Though we are saved by grace , discipleship calls us to...
Maybe our congregations perceive Pentecost as a one-time celebration of the Holy Spirit. While red is the color of our paraments, hangings, and vestments for only one week, the Festival of the Holy Spirit...
I heard of a local mega-church that raised a “sunrise” colored billboard one year that said simply “Easter: April 18-21.” The message implied a multi-day “come-when-you-can” Easter bonanza. The dates simply conflated the Church’s...
HOLY WEEK. For people who are accustomed to being at worship just once a week, the shift from once-weekly worship to the five liturgies of Holy Week (count them!) is a huge planning-calendar adjustment!...
LENT. Some years the season of Lent becomes merely a six week narrative of following Jesus on his journey to Jerusalem. This year, when St. Mark tells our gospel stories, is a good time...
A novel that grabs and keeps our attention gradually reveals that which is not known. A novel, at each turn of the age, reveals the detail and progression of the story. The time after...
ADVENT is about the art of waiting. BUT … holiday decorations have been on the shelves in our “box stores” since well before Hallowe’en, and the world will declare that every day after Thanksgiving...
This past month, we have begun the process of reopening the church buildings for worship, ministry activities, and outside groups. Starting July 19th, we began holding in-person outdoor worship in the lawn by the...
Church Closure & the Yellow Phase Out of an abundance of caution to keep the most vulnerable among us safe, and after weighing guidelines from the state, the wider church, and our insurance company,...