A Necessary Corrective
I've been writing about worship as a way of entering an alternate reality, which Christians might call the Courts of Heaven, The Heavenly City, The Heavenly Banquet, The Resurrection Life,…
The One Who Helps Us to Mature
This is a continuation of the discussion started in the post titled The One Who Walks in the Garden. There are, of course, other ways to look at the second…
The One Who Walks in the Garden
Once human beings became conscious of the world, we did very little for 180,000 years. We were hunter-gatherers who worked for about three hours a week and used only about…
A Covenant Formed of Questions
I write this on Good Friday. Throughout the night, different people have come and prayed in the Garden of Repose that we set-up in the sanctuary. Framed by trees and…
Carrying Covenant
Jesus tells us to bear each other's burdens, and it seems to me that this burden-bearing is part of the covenant we make with our neighbors. But I would like…
Covenant in Jephthah’s Story: Judges 10:6 – 12:7
Artwork: Pat Berger, Jephthah's Daughter, 1991, oil & oil sticks on canvas. As I look through the lens of covenant to view my life and my faith, a question arises.…
Covenantal Spirituality
Image: KPB Stevens, Moses & The Burning Bush, linocut on paper, 2022. A few months ago I reread Walter Brueggemann's The Covenanted Self, and realized that covenant is a profound…
From Prayer to Mission
Now that we’ve begun to follow Jesus in praying for the good of creation, the next step is to follow Jesus in action. For Jesus did not use prayer as…
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Adult Formation Series, “Experiments in Prayer and Meditation,” begins on October 7th at 7:00 PM
Led by Rev. Patricia Rose via Zoom, this series will offer opportunities to experiment with different forms of contemplative prayer with a light hearted openness. We can learn so much…
Learn and practice the method of Centering Prayer at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.
Starting on Thursday, September 2nd and continuing on September 9, 16, 23 and 30 all from 12 noon – 1:00 pm we will be teaching how to practice Centering Prayer…