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Dear Friends in Christ, I am watching the news this afternoon and seeing demonstrators break into the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., bringing an official meeting of Congress to a halt. Members of Congress and their staff were quickly evacuated from the building even as demonstrators continue to go throughout the Capitol Building. It is…

This is the time of the year for decorations, for singing, for gatherings of family and friends. Except this year, when much of our normal Advent season seems anything but. With everything going on in our world today, “joy to the world” doesn’t seem to make much sense – until we remember the manger. Where…

What a difference a few weeks can make! In a video shown at our October 2020 annual diocesan clergy conference, Bishop Lloyd Allen shared an update on the state of Honduras post-COVID-19 lockdown. In particular, he emphasized that some schools in the Diocese of Honduras have reopened post-lockdown, but fear of the coronavirus has meant…

In my last post, we examined how God uses a new rector to bring a new beginning to a church, and that the new beginning must start with a common vision. We examined that “common vision” and concluded that it must contain a view of the centrality of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus…

Every church has a new rector sooner or later. Some go through this transition more often than others. Regardless of how or why it happens, the coming of a new rector is an invitation. It’s an invitation, actually, primarily from God, to discover in a new way what God has called the church to be…

Almighty and everlasting God, we commend to your care President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania. Comfort them in their suffering, lend skill to all who attend them and bless the means used for their cure. Touch them with the healing presence of your Holy Spirit and draw them to even greater faith in you;…

In these days of the COVID-19 crisis, we face challenges we have never faced before. This past Monday, I spent almost an entire day in front of my laptop and on my phone, responding to emails and texting, crisis voice after crisis voice after crisis voice.  I texted a friend of mine that I know…

© LakshmiPrasad lucky These are crazy, odd times. And quite honestly, the temptation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic is to be uncertain and to learn, uncomfortably, how to live with the lack of capacity to plan for the future. Not knowing how people are, being cut off from family and friends. This happened…

I think it’s the nature of the Christian life to go through cycles such as the following: Things are going pretty well. And then through a whole series of circumstances in which we feel thrown against the rocks. We thought we could do something, but we can’t. All of our efforts at self-will and continued…

I need a new flashlight. And when I was looking at flashlight ads, I found one that you can turn on, and the beam can either go broad or narrow, concentrated down to a pin dot. Sometimes the pin dot happens for me when I read Scripture. Today, it was this line from the Gospel…