Reece Marshburn is a composer and member of St Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in Portland, OR. Here he offers a reflection on composing; viewing it as both spiritual practice and piece of belonging to community
We cannot receive the blessings of the overwhelming beauty and power of God’s creation without the gifts of air and light. Air moves, and we have the wind which sometimes blows gently against our bodies, and others moans through the cracks in our homes like a miserable ghost. Usually, I listen to the wind and consider that a friend has come to visit me
This week’s review is ‘Brooklyn.’ It’s a love story, an immigrant story and it just might have something important to tell us about congregational development.
In the Magazine we’re looking at worship and its intersection with our lives. In this piece, Carrie Willard invites us to sit with her and calls upon us to extend the invitation to others – #sitbyme
In the Magazine this month, we’re exploring worship. In this piece, George Clifford looks at how Neibuhr’s summary of the purpose of worship as the increase of the love of God and neighbor has consistently guided his ministry.
This week’s review is the Hunger Games final installment, Mockingjay Part 2.
Though originally appearing in Voices of Integrity in 1999, this article by Louie Clay captures an issue that has remained relevant even amidst the vast changes in the culture and in the movement towards greater equality and inclusion for LGBT persons. In coming across it, we felt it was worth looking at once again.
The Episcopal Church has made huge strides for people who identify under the umbrella term LGBT in offering overall acceptance, marriage equality, and opportunity for ordination. I’ve met clergy who are “L”, “G”, and “T.” But the “B” seems ever silent.
In the Magazine we’re exploring worship and in this piece, Charles LaFond reflects on the season of Advent and its occurrence in the global north’s winter, asking “What do we do? You and I? What is our job in winter’s darkness?”