The Table Blog

Dear sisters and brothers, Just like our Sunday lectionary, the readings for daily morning and evening prayer have us steadily working through Luke’s Gospel. A couple weeks ago the reading was a parable from Luke 5 that ends with Jesus saying: “No one who drinks…

Church, I write you this letter with a full heart: it’s been a long discernment process for our denominational affiliation, and I’m glad we are through the meat of it. For those wondering, here are next steps for us: 1) Our initial affiliation with the…

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 Church, I’ve been back from sabbatical now almost 2 months and continue to be thankful for the rest I enjoyed this summer and the honor it is to serve you as Priest. Our sermon from last Sunday was a well known, but often misunderstood,…

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…