This Sunday marks the final Sunday of Ordinary Time 2024-2025! Next Sunday marks the beginning of a new Liturgical Year as we fittingly turn ourselves to hope again in the return of Christ to make all things new.  Ordinary Time concludes, however, with Christ the King Sunday, and for very good reason. It is the calendar’s answer to the question of Jesus: As the concluding Sunday of the Year, after all that has been said and done, who is do we say that he is? He is the King, n

This Fall the whole church will be walking together through a number of weeks introducing and describing Christian “spirituality,” or “Spiritual Practices.” We’re aiming to address questions like: “How do I grow?” and “How do I get close to God?”  We’re continuing this week with celebration  as a spiritual practice. Christianity claims to have been alerted to an event , a happening in time and space that is relevant for the whole world: the triumph over sin and death in Jesus

This Fall the whole church will be walking together through a number of weeks introducing and describing Christian “spirituality,” or “Spiritual Practices.” We’re aiming to address questions like: “How do I grow?” and “How do I get close to God?”  We’re continuing this week with silence and solitude. We live in a noisy time. I remember my freshman year in college (when iPods were still a) something produced and used and b) cool) the shock and dismay of upperclassmen and profe

This Fall the whole church will be walking together through a number of weeks introducing and describing Christian “spirituality,” or “Spiritual Practices.” We’re aiming to address questions like: “How do I grow?” and “How do I get close to God?”  We’re continuing this week with fasting. For centuries, even before Jesus and beyond the Christian tradition, fasting has been understood as (among other things) a way to gain clarity: the experience of hunger and our response to it

This Fall the whole church will be walking together through a number of weeks introducing and describing Christian “spirituality,” or...

This Fall the whole church will be walking together through a number of weeks introducing and describing Christian “spirituality,” or...

This Fall the whole church will be walking together through a number of weeks introducing and describing Christian “spirituality,” or...

This week we’ll continue to walk through the highlights of the Old Testament with the story of the Ten Commandments!  The Ten...

This week we’ll continue to walk through the highlights of the Old Testament with the story of the Exodus. The Exodus is, of course, the...

This week we’ll continue to walk through the highlights of the Old Testament with the story of the call of Moses. It is as dramatic a...

This week we’ll continue to walk through the highlights of the Old Testament with the story of Jacob’s son, Joseph.  This is another...

This week we’ll continue our walk through the highlights of the Old Testament with an introduction to Jacob and Esau. When Isaac, the son...

This week we’ll continue our walk through the highlights of the Old Testament with “The Birth of Isaac.” Genesis 18 & 21 focus on God’s...

This week we’ll continue our walk through the highlights of the Old Testament with “The Covenant(s) with Abra(ha)m”  Genesis 15 and 17...

This week we’ll continue our walk through the highlights of the Old Testament! Genesis 12 and the Call of Abram is one of the major...

This week we’ll continue our walk through the highlights of the Old Testament! Last week we looked at the Noahic Flood and its role in...

We are in the season of Ordinary Time! Having walked through the story of Jesus—his incarnation, birth, life and ministry, death,...

We are in the season of Ordinary Time! Having walked through the story of Jesus—his incarnation, birth, life and ministry, death,...

This week marks the beginning of “Ordinary Time”! Having walked through the story of Jesus—his incarnation, birth, life and ministry,...

This week marks the third week of “Ordinary Time”! Having walked through the story of Jesus—his incarnation, birth, life and ministry,...