In the Season of Church Retreats

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Christ Church

Dear People of Christ Church, In the “institutional church” structures where I run, this is the season of the long-meeting-masquerading-as-retreat. I serve on several diocesan bodies, and we are all having our annual “retreats” this time of year—actually, just really

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Finding our Moral Footing

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Christ Church

Dear People of Christ Church, This week, our Episcopal Church Class will take on “Contemporary Moral Issues,” and wow, there seem to be a lot of them swirling around. On Sunday in my sermon I mentioned how God had “shown

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Outward and Visible Signs

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Christ Church

Dear People of Christ Church, This week at our Episcopal Church class we talked about the shape of the liturgy. In the Episcopal Church, that’s also to have a conversation about what we believe theologically—we “do” theology as we “do”

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