Mar 10, 2022
Beloved Friends- It has now been a week since we “re-re-gathered” for our in-person worship (Trinity@316), and wow, does that feel good after such a long-extended season of being apart. I am also so grateful to all the people and effort that continues to go into...
Mar 2, 2022
Beloved Friends- Welcome to our Lenten journey. Lent is our season in the church that began two days ago on Ash Wednesday, leads us over the course of a 40-day pilgrimage of sorts, takes us to Holy Week and then, eventually, to the celebration at the empty tomb on...
Feb 23, 2022
Beloved Friends- Sunday will mark two moments of mystery and grace in the life of our church calendar as we mark the end of our journey through the season of Epiphany and celebrate the wonder of the story of the Transfiguration. As we turn listen to the words of the...
Feb 16, 2022
Beloved Friends- In less than two weeks we will begin another season of Lent. Lent has been described as a 40-day wilderness journey in which we are invited to engage in the serious spiritual practices of fasting, almsgiving and prayer. It is also a church season that...
Feb 9, 2022
Beloved Friends- Sunday we will celebrate the Feast Day of Absalom Jones. Absalom Jones was born enslaved to Abraham Wynkoop a wealthy Anglican planter in 1746 in Delaware. He would go on to be an abolitionist and clergyman who, due to his passion for the gospel and...
Feb 2, 2022
Beloved Friends, Taped to the inside page of my monthly planner is a tattered piece of paper with these words from Methodist pastor Ted Loder: Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting,in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise...