The following is a meditation by Bruce Colville on 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14, the Old Testament reading for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost, June 30, 2019. The old prophet sets out in the morning but turns to Elisha and instructs him not to follow. This…
Embodying Christ’s Presence in Proximity
Our mission at The Table has everything to do with the presence of Christ: Encountering, Embodying, and Extending… We encounter Christ in the Word and at the Table on Sundays, We embody Christ in Table Groups and small communities during the week, and We extend Christ into the world as we engage our neighborhoods and workplaces…
What Do We Do With Our Shame?
What is shame? Brené Brown says shame is “the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging – something we’ve experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection.” This kind of shame is a tool…
A Way Forward Together
What a wonderful week we had discussing the future of leadership at The Table. Last Wednesday we had a video call with Canon Kimberley Pfeiler from our diocesan office. She spoke briefly about Anglican polity and answered our questions pertaining to the formation of a vestry. Many…
Podcast Recommendations and Teaching at The Table
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…
How We Lead at The Table
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…
It Takes a Church to Raise a Child
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…
What’s Really Happening in Worship
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…
How To Fast For Lent
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…
Why We Pray Old Prayers Other People Wrote
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…
