Jul 28, 2023 | Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the spiritual experience of the journey; how being placed in a new environment (internally or externally, whether by choice or not) provides shifts that can both change and sustain us. Sometimes, such shifts happen without the travel, by...
Jul 14, 2023 | Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
This spring, my spouse Charlie and I traveled to the Southwest. The main reason for the trip was to see our son Luke, currently living in Arizona, but we stopped first in New Mexico—a state neither of us had ever been to before. We had a wonderful time, and we...
Jun 30, 2023 | Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
Today is the last day of June, and what a month it’s been! We bid farewell and Godspeed to members of our Holy Apostles community, and we welcomed new people; both on staff and in the congregation. We baptized a new Christian and heard a fresh voice speak from our...
Jun 16, 2023 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
Every week or two, Assisting Bishop Mary Glasspool writes a letter to clergy. There’s a theme to each letter, and she wrote recently about prayer (specifically corporate prayer; prayer within worshipping communities). She included this quotation from a book written in...
Jun 5, 2023 | Celebration, Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
In a recent online forum on prayer, a woman who was raised in the Quaker tradition talked about her understanding of worship as a “listening prayer.” She described her surprise and delight when she stayed with some friends in Belarus and heard them answer the phone....
