Just as the priest utters the Words of Institution to mark Christ’s presence in the Eucharist, it often feels that people all over the Episcopal church want to believe that uttering the phrase “families with young children” will somehow make their presence manifest as well.
How welcoming, really, is the average Episcopal parish?
Prescription: Beauty moments and Sabbath-bits – take with a full glass of water for reduction of church-anxiety
by Bonnie Anderson and Dan Webster HBO is airing a truly important film. ‘All the Way’ is a play by Robert Schenkkan adapted for
by Edwin Smit and Louie Crew Clay The Presiding Bishop and General Convention have called on the whole church to respond to “systemic racial
There are three categories of people in the U.S. at risk of becoming homeless: those over 50, veterans and LGBTQ youth. Let’s take a look a closer look at these groups and the hardships they face.
Betsy, Greg, Heather, and Stephen talk about the challenges and joys of parenting in the digital age and what insights that gives us into technology use in the Church.
When people do change their minds, we often applaud them. They got it, we say! They turned to the right side! They made the healthy choice! And it is true that changing one’s mind can be a good thing. Yet, somehow, we also tend to denigrate people who change their minds. When leaders change their minds (to a position we disagree with), we claim that they are wishy-washy, that we can’t trust them.
May is Older Americans Month. As a church, let’s take this opportunity to consider both our attitudes toward our older members, and also our plans for working with them and with the seniors in our communities as they (and we) age.
Our lives stop being lives and begin to be a series of one-act plays on stages within audiences – since everyone we think should listen is busy on their own stage. Seven billion stages and an empty theater – empty but for God who leans forward, loving what God sees ferociously, leaning forward in his one auditorium seat, with God’s elbows on God’s knees, eyes wide, full of beaming love.