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By Charles Graves
Millennials have grown used to portrayals as phone-connected, disbelieving, libertine, avocado toast-eaters. Such statements are usually followed by hand-wringing pleas for more young people in the pews. As a group, we crave a church that is “Loving, Liberating and Life-Giving”. We believe in justice because we are Christians and because of our Episcopal faith. We need the Church to meet us on...
By Linda Buskirk
Taylor asserts that encountering others with love and respect is to undertake “the hardest spiritual work in the world… to love the neighbor as the self”
By Greg Syler
In this hyper-digital, connected-but-disconnected day and age, the church that finds a way to connect people to people so that everyone has someone to walk with them and represent Christ will not only be counter-cultural but blessed by God.
By Richelle Thompson
Setting aside the content for a moment, I’d like to focus on the delivery device: a letter.
By Linda Buskirk
In all that, let us also share our faith with each other. Your story may be just the thing a sister or brother needs to be encouraged.
By Linda Buskirk
We all know it’s coming. Letters are being written, folks are being asked to share their stories from the lectern, pledge cards are being designed. The annual giving campaign will soon be underway.
By Scott Gunn
Scott Gunn shares his thoughts on preaching along with a reflection of a recent webinar.
By Anna Olson
How might we witness to that spirit of anamnesis at this fraught moment in our own country?