Sacrament, Prayer, and Praise
February 12, 2025
“The majority of churches today don’t look like the ‘whole family of God.’ As Episcopalians, how can we become more like the communion of saints we say we believe in?”
“The majority of churches today don’t look like the ‘whole family of God.’ As Episcopalians, how can we become more like the communion of saints we say we believe in?”
“The more ‘daylight’ I can shed on this role, the more I anticipate it will take root and flourish throughout ECMN.”
“We listen when we are in a space together, when we are in the *flesh* together.”
“We have been given power beyond ourselves to resist evil. We have been given courage to face any fear. We have been given hope for we are bound together with the whole of the body of Christ, saints both living and who have gone before, who will walk with us in resisting evil.”
“The remainder of the scriptures from Exodus all the way to the end of Revelation is essentially wrestling with the question of: how can we best be an alternative society that in the midst of a world that’s governed by the economics of Pharaoh, we embody God’s liberating economics of love?”
Celebration is what makes our work of ministry possible. Only from appreciating God’s abundance in our lives can we imagine it for others—and then help them see it for themselves.
“I think parts of the great Dr. Rev Martin Luther King Jr.’s story never get told, and the story of his famous last speech is just as inspirational and mystical as the content of the speech itself.”
“We trusted each other with our stories and they taught me what it meant to be authentic and vulnerable. It’s very difficult to pretend you have it all together when you’re carrying everything you own on your back.”
“I don’t think Jesus gives him the pat answer we may think this is. Jesus, I think, turns the whole scenario upside down.”