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Church, In what has felt like the longest year (and counting), COVID-19 has created so many opportunities to feel isolated and alienated from community. We have not been able to be together in the way that we would like to be for DNA groups, Table…

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, I am still reveling in the afterglow of our Easter worship gathering. It was wonderful to see so many of you (masked) face-to-(masked) face, and to commune together with the resurrected Christ. This past Wednesday the Vestry met, as…

Church, As vaccine eligibility opens up this week to everyone 16 and older, it seems we are entering a new phase of “Covid-tide.” Having lived very differently for the past year, we are hoping and praying that we are now in the home stretch. Even…

Dear Church, In my sermon last Sunday on the “boundary-transgressing desire of God for intimacy” made manifest in Acts 10, I mentioned that I relied heavily on the theological commentary of Willie James Jennings. For further discussion this Sunday (Mar 28) and Tuesday (Mar 30)…

Dear Church, We are smack dab in the middle of Lent and I’m feeling a genuine sadness and malaise this week. I don’t know if it’s cloudy weather or if Lent is doing its good work to bring me closer into the suffering of our…

Church, God is inviting us to get real about our role in his ongoing work of reconciliation in creation. We are not the center of this story. We are Gentiles – we who were once aliens to the kingdom of faith, but God has invited…

Here we are in Week 2 of our Lenten Series on Race & Repentance: Reckoning with Whiteness. This past week I preached on how Mammon (wealth + property + money) functioned systemically in Scripture. The big idea: love of money that Jesus spoke about (and…

Dear Church, There is so much to update you all on! Please take some time to explore everything in this letter so we can move together as a community in this time. First of all, the good news is that the official 7-Day Positivity Rate…

Dear Church, I have been re-reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic Life Together, and was struck by this passage, especially in light of the distancing we have had to endure to help stem the tide of the pandemic. The physical presence of other Christians is a source…

(Quick version: we are raising an additional $10,000 this year to give Fr. Spencer a stipend as a Co-Rector at The Table. Click here if you already know you want to give toward that. Read on if you’d like to hear why we are doing…