

We talk all sorts of things on Ascension Day!


New Zealand bishop and blogger Peter Carrell has been presiding over a most interesting conversation about what being “Anglican” does or could mean.

“Let’s start with the sparrows, and remembering that God may delight in every hair on our heads, but we didn’t put them there. Like the sparrow, we are the little children. Watched. Protected. And pretty vulnerable.”

“The Ascension is truly a wonder, and it puts us on the brink of mystery at the same time that it confirms us in community.”

“Lamentation is about the journey and not the destination. There is no point to Job other than the fact that he felt safe enough with God and his friends to express feelings no person should ever find themselves in the position of needing to express.”

“This is what it means to be a part of a community of faith. Coming together in joy and in sorrow. Celebrating and grieving. Keeping vigil. Bearing Christ’s light. Showing each other that we’re not alone.”

“Jesus felt our sin, our dysfunction, our imperfection, and was willing to be so true to us that he took up his cross, gave his life, died for it. And then rose again to sanctify us, not in our perfection, but our imperfection, our humble, bumbling attempts to be better, to be more like him, to know his Father.”

The Faith to Go Team looks at the two options for gospels readings from John for this week

God doesn’t love us because we’re awesome, but in spite of the fact that we aren’t