All over our region, congregations are embracing new ways of working on behalf of the Gospel. If you have a story to tell about work your community is doing, please email us.
“If we oriented ourselves toward reconciliation with God, we might orient our interior life to the kingdom of God, so that the kingdom not only becomes a destination, a place we go, a world transformed, but the kingdom is also a place from which we come. It is the source, as well as the…
Like Jesus in today’s gospel reading (Mark 1:29-39), most of us have had the experience of being told that we weren’t available when we were needed. In her sermon, Canon Vanessa Butler points out that Jesus doesn’t let the demands around him fluster him or detract from his mission. “I aspire to the expert level…
Dear Friends in Christ: Last Sunday was Septuagesima Sunday, an ancient commemoration that means Easter Sunday is just about 70 days away. In our region, it comes in the dead of winter, when we know we have a long way to go, but it brings with it the promise of eventual spring. This year, Septuagesima…
In December, more than 100 Episcopalians from across the partnership dioceses completed Sacred Ground, a dialogue series about race launched in 2019 by Becoming Beloved Community, the Episcopal Church’s long-term initiative on racial healing, reconciliation, and justice. During the twenty-week program, participants met ten times, completed readings, and watched videos about race and American history. To go…
Ash Wednesday All-Day Vigil On February 17, the partnership dioceses will hold an all-day vigil of Ash Wednesday liturgies, prayer, music, readings and reflections on Zoom beginning at 7 a.m. and concluding with a worship service at 7 p.m. Bishop Sean will host the evening service. The entire vigil will take place on one Zoom…
“We have been as disciples to learn and sent out as apostles to do,” said the Rev. Jason Shank in his sermon for the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. Let it be so for each of us that God’s love through us can teach, restore and heal.”
“Jesus begins his ministry by calling people out and then by pulling people in,” said the Rev. Canon Cathy Dempesy-Sims in her sermon for the third Sunday after the Epiphany. “He proclaims the time of repentance is now and then calls on folks to follow him — not alone, but in community. To usher in…
In his sermon on John 1:43-51, Canon Alfred Price said, “Jesus didn’t ask us to succeed—he asked us to try. The message in the first chapter of John, indeed throughout the gospels, is that God’s love is extended to us through our brother, through our friend, through our Advocate, Jesus Christ the righteous … We…
January 13, 2021 Dear People of God: Earlier this week, the FBI warned that armed protests are being planned for Washington D.C. and all 50 state capitals sometime between Saturday, January 16, and the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on January 20. As your bishops, we write today imploring you to stay away from these…
