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Diocesan Convention
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Tomorrow and Saturday folks from around the diocese will be gathering for our annual convention. Delegate Blix Winston, and alternate Carla Kaufman, and I will represent St. James’, and partake in this business of the church. This year Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will be the featured guest, presiding at the opening Eucharist for convention…
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Let’s Go Fly A Kite!
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This Sunday, weather permitting, we will have our next Time-Out Together Family Ministry event – let’s go fly a kite! Everyone in the St. James’ community is invited to bring a picnic lunch and a kite and join us in the field next to the church after the 10:30 am service. I also hear…
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A Vision for Our Shared Life & Ministry
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Over the last year and a half I’ve been listening to the Story and stories of St. James’. It’s been a continuation of the work that began in conversations as you were calling me to be your next Rector. Part of the work of that time of transition was to discern the identity of…
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The Hard Questions
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Our Easter adult formation series this year will be a series called The Hard Questions: Parenting with Doubt, Faithfulness, and Wonder. It’s a program I created a few years ago because parents were always asking me how to answer their kids’ hard questions. Throughout the five weeks, the course is designed to create a…
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Coming Close to the Mystery of Easter
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Last Sunday we gathered and waved our palms while letting Hosannas ring, and then stood in the shadow of the cross as we read the story of the last time Jesus came to Jerusalem. I am always thrown by the swing of energy in that service – and wondered to a mentor once why…
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Entering the Holiest of Weeks with Palm Sunday
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This Sunday we enter the holiest of weeks in the Christian calendar with Palm Sunday. It is the time we set aside every year to walk Jesus’ last steps, that we may know some piece of the unimaginable love of God. It begins on Sunday when we gather outside for the Liturgy of the…
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Entering the Holiest of Weeks
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This Sunday we enter the holiest of weeks in the Christian calendar. It is the time we set aside every year to walk Jesus’ last steps, that we may know some piece of the unimaginable love of God. It begins on Sunday when we gather outside for the Liturgy of the Palms. We tell…
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Experiencing Holy Week with Children
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The Triduum – the Three Great Days – has for centuries upon centuries been a time for Christians to gather and retrace the last steps of Christ. From Maundy Thursday to Good Friday to Holy Saturday, we as a community at St. James’ engage each year in profound and meaningful liturgies, many of which…
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Praying with Stations of the Cross
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This year our Sunday School kids and families are creating a set of Stations of the Cross will be hung around the church in the next week. The practice of praying the “stations” grew out of the early church practice of walking the Via Dolorosa, or Way of the Cross, in Jerusalem, as a…
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DYI Tabernacling
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Tabernacling is the practice of setting aside and creating sacred space in your home or office. Do you have such a space already? I have a few different ones in various places, but below is a picture of the little altar I made on my desk at church. If you don’t have one, I…