From July 8 through July 11, it was my privilege to serve a second term as First Alternate Clergy Deputy at the General Convention of the Episcopal Church. This year we met in Baltimore, Maryland at the Baltimore Convention Center two blocks from the Orioles Baseball Stadium. Our hotel was...
Jesus was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name.Your kingdom come.Give us each day our daily bread.And...
Dear People of Grace, I am writing to let you know that Cheryl Kelley will be leaving her position as Director of Christian Formation at Grace to begin work with Georgia Legal Services. Of course this is bittersweet for us all, even as we can immediately see how Cheryl’s enormous...
Summer Sunday Forum Beyond Dementia Coalition (BDC) is introducing a new project to Grace – Emergency Comfort Kits – and volunteers are needed to assemble the kits. They are intended to proactively assist those in the community living with dementia in the event of a disaster or other unplanned displacement....
As Jesus and his disciples went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many...
The General Convention The 80th General Convention of The Episcopal Church will meet July 8 - 11, 2022 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The General Convention is the governing body of The Episcopal Church. Every three years it meets as a bicameral legislature that includes the House...
Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with...
Office Closed The parish office will be closed on Monday, July 4 for Independence Day! Yoga Prayer Yoga classes will not meet on Monday, July 4. Participants are welcome to join the Thursday class instead! Chair yoga meets Thursdays at 10:00 AM and on your mat yoga meets at 11:00...
The Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. He said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7QK2cXtr8k The crimson cordMay the pain of the world touchmy soul. It will not stay–I cannot hold onto it–but in a moment of contact: the powerof a storm in a butterfly’s wing.There is only one pain, sharedbetween all that breathes and lives:The deep wisdom only whispered, the keythat unlocks all...