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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…

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…

Dear church, In the sermon this past Sunday, we heard good news about our acceptance at the table of the Lord being a settled issue. You don’t have to fight for your place in the kingdom or strategize how to be last now so that you can…

Dear sisters and brothers, As a community, we have from the beginning sought to embody four core practices: Welcoming, Listening, Gospeling, and Going (or Joining). We are in a series of sharing briefly about each of these core practices. First Fr. Spencer reflected on Welcoming, then I reflected…

Church, It’s good to be back from my mini-sabbatical. I plan to share a bit more at our all church meeting this Sunday (Aug 14 from 4-6pm), so suffice it to say: my heart is full, the rest was sweet, and I’m energized to reenter…

From the very beginning of The Table, as a community we have sought to embody four core practices: Welcoming, Listening, Gospeling, and Going (Joining). We are in a series of sharing briefly about each of these core practices. Last week Fr. Spencer reflected on Welcoming. Today’s practice is…

Church, From its start, The Table has pursued four core practices: Welcoming, Listening, Gospeling, and Going/Joining. We hold these practices as central to the life of our church as they help us to embody our values. Over the next four weeks, we will share brief reflections on each of…

Our national epidemic of gun violence hit close to home this week. Sunday evening, a gunman opened fire in the food court at the Greenwood Park Mall, just south of Indianapolis, killing three people and injuring two. The gunman was shot and killed by an…

Dear sisters and brothers, I was talking with a few people the other day about the tension in our liturgical life between consistency and newness. Some churches (like Orthodox churches) pray almost the exact same liturgy each Sunday. Other churches mix it up and do…

Dear sisters and brothers, This past Sunday in my sermon I asked us to consider our fears: What are we afraid of? What deals have we made to keep fear at bay? What habits and ways of life have we developed that we think will…