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In order to understand the Ascension, you have to see the pattern. Every time the people want to take Jesus and install him in a throne of power, he escapes. Every time they ask Jesus when he will give them power, he says "you're missing the point." Jesus ascends to heaven itself to frustrate all our human desires for control and certainty.…
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Jesus calls his disciples, on the road to Emmaus "slow of heart." After this week in Missouri, it is easy to see Christians who are too slow to love. LGBTQ+ people, trans people, are being attacked in our state. Our faith isn't about wishing away diversity. At this church we practice knowing in our hearts that all our differences somehow fit within…
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On Easter morning, we find Mary at the tomb, weeping. "Why are you crying?" she is asked. I suspect many of us know, know in our bones this pain, this grief. Easter is the story not just of Jesus rising up, but of Mary too. Mary goes to tell good news from the graveyard. Mary is sent so the world may know, hope is never finally dead.…
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Pilgrimage this Spring is taking a look at Spiritual Practices. Each Sunday we’ll take a look at Spiritual Practices that make up the life of faith, organized by time. This week, we look at annual practices, the cycle of the church year, and rules of life. You can find the slides, and the video Mike mentions on the page for this class here: https:/…
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Faith tends to do one of two things. It can close us down or open us up. When you read a Gospel like story of the Samaritan Woman, you have to wonder why we think it's our job, as Christians, to shut people down. Ours is a faith with the capacity to bring light, and curiosity, and hope. Ours is a faith which can help us to laugh and to listen.…
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Pilgrimage this Spring is taking a look at Spiritual Practices. Each Sunday we’ll take a look at Spiritual Practices that make up the life of faith, organized by time. It may seem odd to talk about practices across the whole of life. I contest, however, that there are some practices which see us through the various stages of our development. In thi…
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How many of us are covert about our Christian faith because we don't want to be associated with that label? John 3:16 is perhaps the most famous line in the Bible. How we read it, how we interpret it, tells us a great deal about the kind of Christianity we practice. Is your faith about exclusion, hate and power? Is your faith about love?…
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On the feast of the Epiphany, the rector considers whether a non-Christian can be a godparent. What does it mean to godparent in the 21st century? All of us need people, sometimes from beyond our immediate family,to name and nurture the good, the true, the beautiful in us. We need community willing to name what is holy in our lives.…
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What if we thought of Christianity less as a "system of rigid belief" and more as a set of practices that make up a way of life? The Rev. Mike Angell discusses the Baptismal Covenant of the Episcopal Church. As some of our members prepare for Confirmation or Reception in the church, what do you have to believe? What does this "way of life" offer to…
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What is Common Prayer? The Rev. Mike Angell discusses the history of the Episcopal/Anglican tradition of Common Prayer. At the end he asks three questions:Where in your own prayer life are you informed by tradition?Where in your own life of prayer could you seek to be more “in the language of the day?” (How do you bring your prayer into dialogue wi…
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