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Subversive Undercroft #195: What’s A-Happening?

April 24, 2021 No Comments

This week we talk about penmanship, what’s a-happening, and Jesus, plus Jon and Lisa disagree on the relationship of Jesus to the Covenant

2FAB: St. Katharina Von Zimmern

April 24, 2021 No Comments

St. Katharina Von Zimmern; the dispossed noblewoman who reformed an important abbey in Zurich, and who voluntarily closed it down as the Reformation took hold

Strange Days

April 23, 2021 No Comments

““These are strange days!”
yells someone in the crowd.
I can assure you, friend,
that no one has had a stranger day than me.”

Episcopal Church releases Racial Justice Audit

April 22, 2021 No Comments

After two years and more than 1,300 surveys, the ground-breaking Racial Justice Audit of Episcopal Leadership is now available to the wider church and public. The audit identifies nine “patterns” of systemic racism – ranging from the historical context of church leadership to current power dynamics — that will also be highlighted in three public webinars in May and June.

A Prayer from the Sheepfold

April 22, 2021 No Comments

“In peace, we pray to You, Lord Christ,
our hearts and faces upturned and open to your glory.
Holy One, You are our shepherd…”

Schism in Fort Worth forces relocation of food pantry

April 21, 2021 5 Comments

After 4 years at St. Luke’s in the Meadows Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, the 4 Saints Food Pantry had to say goodbye and find a new home.

The Prayer Book in the Pandemic

April 21, 2021 No Comments

In the last year, we have been presented with the opportunity to know the Prayer Book more intimately as friend and companion. While we have been, to varying degrees, separated from the Eucharist, the Prayer Book has been there for us offering community in isolation. In a time of great absence, it has served as a sacramental presence, an outward and visible sign of the presence of grace among us. In so doing, it has embodied for us the potential to realize that, despite distance, we are all connected and sustained by the mysterious yet abiding depth of a divine incarnational love.