The Table Blog

Christ was a teacher; he held out Kingdom truth and reality to those whom he ministered. At the Table we are committed to developing and equipping the entire human person: mind, soul, body, and heart. Teaching is part of our integrative approach to building up…

We have a commitment to a specific way of leadership at The Table, a way that is neither “top-down” (what I say goes because I’m the leader!), nor “bottom-up” (nobody does anything until we all agree). Our way of leadership might be best described as…

There are churches you can go to that will entertain your kids; there are churches that will give you a break from parenting during the hour or so worship service; there are churches that will assertively ask you to take your child into special designated…

Many of us come from traditions where the goal of gathering on Sundays for worship is to perhaps learn something new about God, or get spiritually pumped up and “refilled” for the coming week. But in this Anglican tradition we are learning to inhabit, that’s not primarily…

Fasting is one of the traditional practices of Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday (March 6 this year), and lasts until Easter Sunday. We are told in Matthew 4:1-11 that Jesus spent forty days fasting in the wilderness and afterwards “he was starving.” Many of…

Most people would describe worship and prayer at The Table as “liturgical.” This means that we pray or sing the same words together as a community. Often these prayers are very old, coming to us from our ancestors in the faith. For people from an…

Soon we begin our celebration of Advent, which is essentially New Year’s Day for the Church. Advent is when we start telling the story again, the story of how Jesus Christ fulfilled the story of Israel in his life, death, resurrection, and ascension, and how…

Every Sunday in our liturgy, we confess a creed. Most of the time we confess the Nicene Creed, but for baptisms we confess the Apostles’ Creed. This is a new practice for many in our church, and sometimes people wonder why we do it. Is…

Every Sunday in our worship gathering, we come forward to the table as a community to partake in Holy Communion. You’ll hear us invite you to open your hands to receive the bread (rather than take the bread by grabbing it between your thumb and fingers). Why…