The Vestry minutes included in the recent return from the Library of Congress cover the establishment of the parish in 1732 until the disestablishment of the colonial church in 1785. George Washington was elected to the Vestry in 1762.
“Behold. Be still. Know: I am, I am, I am. Refuge.”
(Based on Psalm 46)
Bishops from all the dioceses in Texas have issued a joint statement decrying the inhumane conditions at our country’s borders; calling on state and national leaders to take action.
A process begun in 2003 looks little closer to fruition as Church of England fails to find a consensus
“Joseph is us, perhaps a whole lot richer than most of us, but still us. And he does what he has to in order to honor the body of his beloved, if sometimes perplexing, teacher according to the rituals of his people. And he takes a big risk with the Roman authority and his own Temple authority to do it. He is, indeed, a good and righteous man, or at least working on it.”
How can we talk about how Jesus sends us out into the world?
The people who love us, like the God who loves us, are our water, our sunlight and our soil. Plenty in our lives will die; and those deaths, large and small, will fertilize the earth in which we are planted; giving our roots a foothold in flood and wind.
“Today we have a story about Jesus’s advance team. It’s hard to know what their aspirations or hopes might have been but Jesus gave them the same advice that we gave our 20th century advance team: Travel light!”
Lambeth Registrations, churches re-opening, and property case delays… It’s our Saturday roundup of news from the past week.