Dear Church, We continue to hold out the political manifesto of Jesus – the Sermon on the Mount – during our worship on Sunday mornings together. We need a robust imagination for how to inhabit our world with the love of Jesus and the logic…
What Jesus Was Doing in the Sermon on the Mount
Dear Church, This past Sunday I made a few points about The Sermon on the Mount that you may not have heard before. Let me summarize, and then offer additional resources for reading and reflection if you want to dig more deeply into these ideas. …
Living the Politics of Jesus in a Partisan America
Dear Church, This Sunday we begin our fall series on The Sermon on the Mount. Our series title is Living the Politics of Jesus in a Partisan America, which should give you a sense of where we are going with this. We believe that Jesus…
Outdoor Worship Will Continue!
Dear Church, What a week we’ve had! We had over 60 people join us for our first socially-distanced outdoor worship gathering. All things considered, our first in-person worship gathering in over 5 months went exceedingly well! We made a decision as a staff to continue meeting…
Shifting to In-Person Gatherings
Dear Church, Thank you for your prayers and input over the last few weeks. Fr. Ben and I, along with the Staff and Vestry, have discussed and discerned how best to adapt to the long term reality of Covid among us. After 21 weeks of…
Gathering Plans for July and Beyond
Dear Church, Thank you for your continued prayers and support as we as Staff and Vestry discern how best to weather the ongoing storm of COVID-19. We met last week and decided to continue meeting for worship on Zoom for the month of July. Even…
An Invitation to Repentance and Hope
Dear Church, Do you remember Veggie Tales? Larry the Cucumber, Bob the Tomato, and Mr. Lunt? Most of us either grew up watching Veggie Tales or our children did. The creator of Veggie Tales, Phil Vischer, now has a podcast called The Holy Post that…
How We Will Gather in June
Dear Church, Our last in-person worship gathering was Sunday, March 8th. Tomorrow, Pentecost Sunday, May 31, will be our THIRTEENTH straight worship gathering on Zoom. God bless Zoom, but I’m ready to see y’all face to face again! Can I get an AMEN?! The Vestry…
The Toll of the Pandemic on Our Body and Our Bodies
Dear Church, I write this today with an acute awareness of the toll this quarantine is taking on our Body and our bodies. Let’s speak to both of these realities, briefly: The toll on our Body (church) Most of our social interactions are on our…
Re-opening Church?
Church Family, Our Governor announced over the weekend how Indiana plans to open up over the next several weeks from our “shelter-in-place” mandate. Understanding the fluidity of the situation (everything can change in a day), we want to begin to prayerfully consider how we gather…
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