The good news in my sermon this past Sunday is that, in Christ, God draws near to our broken family systems, our traumatized genealogies, our shameful histories… and saves us by fully identifying with us, becoming a child of humanity, born of a woman so…
A New Liturgical Year is Upon Us
Last Sunday we rejoiced and rested in the kingship of Jesus: his sovereign love and cross-shaped power to reconcile all things to God, enact justice, and make peace. And now (after Thanksgiving, at any rate) we get ready to turn the corner into a new…
A Women’s Lectionary For the Whole Church
This coming liturgical year (which starts Sunday Nov 27th) we will be using A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church: Year A for Scripture selections (and translations) for Holy Eucharist. (We normally use the Revised Common Lectionary, along with a few special series from time…
Let’s Add Our Faith Together in 2023
Dear sisters and brothers, How lovely it is to worship together! Each Sunday we gather as God’s beloved children, we hear the good news of the gospel, we share in the Body and Blood of Christ together, and we’re sent out into the world to…
Sharing in Our Life Together Through Giving
Dear sisters and brothers, I wanted to share a brief update with you on our Giving Campaign for 2023. (In case you missed it, from now until November 27th, we are asking you to pray about making a pledge to give to The Table this…
A Story About Archer
Most weeks during the prayers of the people, we pray for Gina and Chris Huff’s grandson Archer, whose medical challenges prompted his parents to move from Michigan to Indianapolis to seek answers at Riley Hospital for Children. Riley Children’s Health wrote a story about Archer…
New Wine is an Acquired Taste
Dear sisters and brothers, Just like our Sunday lectionary, the readings for daily morning and evening prayer have us steadily working through Luke’s Gospel. A couple weeks ago the reading was a parable from Luke 5 that ends with Jesus saying: “No one who drinks…
A Change in Affiliation
As we announced yesterday in worship, we have some news about our denominational affiliation: The Table has discerned a call to leave the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and become part of the Episcopal Church. After a process of discernment lasting more than a…
Breaking the Spell of Mammon
Dear sisters and brothers, As I said in my sermon this past Sunday, I find it profoundly good news that, in the midst of a world languishing under the spell of Mammon, which always promises way more than it can deliver, Jesus is revealing and…
Putting on the Easy Yoke of the Cross
Dear sisters and brothers, This past Sunday we heard the good news that a new kind of life is available to us in God through discipleship to Jesus, and it upends all our assumptions about the good life, and the allegiances we’ve made to secure…
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