
Month: December 2021
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The Flight Into Egypt
Read More: The Flight Into EgyptThis Sunday we will hear Matthew 2:13-23, the passage that tells of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus’s escape into Egypt when King Herod plotted to kill them. To accompany my painting, I offer this retelling of stories of the Flight Into Egypt, drawn from the apocryphal Gospel of pseudo-Matthew. The Flight into Egypt, as told in…
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The Omicron Variant and What It Means for Us as a Church
Read More: The Omicron Variant and What It Means for Us as a ChurchThis is the third time we’ve suggested protocols to keep everyone safe during this pandemic, and I want to start by admitting that such protocols are never going to be able to keep up with the current realities, especially as those realities change from week to week. The discussion at the end of this post…
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Midday Prayer on Hiatus this Week
Read More: Midday Prayer on Hiatus this WeekOur very lovely Midday Prayer service, that normally occurs every Wednesday at 12:15, will be on hiatus during the week between Christmas and New Year. We’ll resume on January 5th.
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Christmas Eve Services
Read More: Christmas Eve ServicesWe will be holding two services on Christmas Eve. Family Service with Pageant At 6:30 PM we’ll hold our Family Eucharistic Service, with Christmas Pageant included! We are telling the Christmas story from the angel’s perspective. The main parts are being rehearsed each Sunday leading up to Christmas, but if you arrive with a little…
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Loneliness, Covid & Hope: March 30, 6:30 PM
Read More: Loneliness, Covid & Hope: March 30, 6:30 PMWe will be live streaming this event on Facebook and Youtube. Are you lonely and wondering how to escape from your loneliness? Loneliness affects people of every generation, race, creed and income. We cannot buy ourselves out of loneliness or cure loneliness with pharmaceuticals or accomplishments. The only cure for loneliness is each other. On…
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Moses in the Sapphire Cloud
Apophatic and Cataphatic Prayer and the Sinai Theophany He was on the mountain for forty days, and what were those days like? Alone, the sky dense around him, the earth occasionally rumbling, and when he saw a glimpse of the divine, it was as if he was looking through stained glass, stained a deep sapphire.…
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The Mixture of the Multitude: Liberation Readings of Scripture
We gathered on Wednesday evenings throughout July and August, sitting around the ubiquitous plastic folding tables that are known to every church. Sunlight slanted in through the wall of glass windows, and the smells of the parish kitchen— old coffee, musty sponges, cleaning product— filled the room. We were there to study Queer Theology, a…
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St. Francis Feast Day Pet Blessing on Sunday, October 4
Saint Francis’s Feast Day is on October 4th. We will hold our annual pet blessing in the midst of the service. Bring your pet or a photo of your pet to church! If you’re more of a plant person, bring a plant! St. Francis’s care for creation extends to all living things.
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