Category: Reflections

This week I wrestle further with the concept of pruning and its purpose.  I hang to to parts of me I’d rather keep, such as my sense of […]

‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes […]

GOD-dreaMs Christ Church Vestry Retreat March 20, 2021 For the church –Find the funding to repair the steeple and the cross. –Provide a welcoming bench; create a safe […]

We lift our voices with our neighbors, including people across this land and the world, offering prayers and words of remembrance, healing, and hope.   We have learned […]

Last week I shared with you the Great Litany which grounds our journey of Lent and deepens our relationship with God and with one another as we ponder […]

Lent is well under way and I am introducing a time-honored prayer practice into this season.  It is a powerful prayer which seems to cover all that is […]

Lent is a time when we look back at what we have done and left undone. We look back and reflect so that we can change, go forward and love more deeply.

Looking around at the dramatic decline in our national health, the deeper awareness of the inequity and pain of long-operating racist systems, and the violent challenges to our democracy our hearts do break, but do they break open? Let us rend our hearts that we may listen, look, and love God and one another with…

Jones continued to lead the Episcopal community, focusing especially on serving the African American community. He founded a day school (as African Americans were excluded from attending public school), the Female Benevolent Society, and an African Friendly Society. In 1800 he called upon Congress to abolish the slave trade and to provide for gradual emancipation…

How easy to grab our identity from a group, another person, or a situation.   We can call ourselves Episcopalian, New Yorkers, Republican, Democrat, Progressive, white, working class, […]