“We might decide, based on the various possible outcomes of the election, that there is a lot more we need to do. But also, we might have our hearts turned from fear and anxiety toward hope and joy when we realize the good work we’re already engaging in.”
This summer, the Episcopal Church will gather in Louisville, Kentucky for its 81st General Convention. It’s a significant event, and will have lots of implications for our life as a denomination going forward, so it’s important for us to know more about it!
“In our world today, the economics of exploitation, conquest, and extraction still hold sway. But the church has not lost its calling to be an alternative household, community, and economic reality.”
“The gospel of Luke bounces from table to table, meal to meal, and while the details are omitted, I cannot help filling them in with my imagination. You can smell the smoke from the fish. Candlelight reflects off the slick oil in a bowl on the table. Bread is broken. There is wine in cups.
Why did Luke take such pains to include food at every turn in his gospel? Luke wants us to know that this Jesus is the same Jesus who died, who was buried, who has returned—changed yes, but still the same, wounded, hungry, and yearning to be with his people.”
by the Very Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. But
by the Very Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson Early in the morning Jesus came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat
“It never ceases to amaze me how easily the church, even our beloved Episcopal Church, slips into a kind of legalism, using scripture to lend credence to creating even more rules and rubrics, higher walls and thicker barriers, in a world already drifting apart, especially when all we crave is community, connection, and healing. We yearn to come together!”
by the Very Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson Also, women and men were bringing him children so that he might hold them and the disciples rebuked them.
by the Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson the MOTHER OF ALL cares for the stranger,orphan and widow she bears up Mark 7:24, from A Women’s Lectionary for
by Jered Weber-Johnson “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will
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