All Saints by the Lake St. Michael and all Angels September 29, 2019 The icon of St. Michael the Archangel I presented to my curacy church as a departure gift in 2011. Why should we care about angels in 2019? Why should we march around the church singing a hymn with a lot of odd-sounding and outdated ideas about spiritual… View Post
Beyond the Conversion Story
All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Year C, Proper 24 September 15, 2019 “I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence.” Paul’s conversion story is one of the most dramatic… View Post
Where in the world was Grace?
Piping plovers on the beach at Trinity Center I spent the past week doing back-to-back conferences, first CREDO at Trinity Center in Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina, and then the diocesan clergy conference at Jouvence in Orford. CREDO is a clergy wellness conference sponsored by the Episcopal Church Pension Fund (in which I was still active when I registered a… View Post
What is “formation”?
The new felt board for telling stories at Messy Church. Come check it out! The next one is Noah’s Ark, on Oct. 4. It’s been common over the last couple of decades for people who used to talk about “Christian Education” to switch and use the term “Christian Formation” instead. In many parts of the English-speaking Anglican world, this term… View Post
The choice of the clay
All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Year C, Proper 23 September 8, 2019 Pottery seems to be in fashion these days; I have lots of friends who have tried it out with varying degrees of seriousness. Many of them have gotten really good, and I regularly see pictures on my Facebook of mugs and bowls that could easily be professionally… View Post
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