The Good Friday Offering: 1972-1982
Issues in history have a habit of reoccurring. As we look at the sixth decade of the Good Friday offering, we arrive in the early 1970s and momentous changes occurring within The Episcopal Church. On July 29, 1974, two years before General Convention affirmed and explicitly authorized the ordination of women to the priesthood, eleven […]
Hunger for the Word, Lent 1 (C) – 2022
[RCL] Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16; Romans 10:8b-13; Luke 4:1-13 What strikes the reader and listener of the lectionary this morning is the eternal echo of God’s Word in Scripture. We hear it in the phrase “forty days and nights,” a familiar set of numbers found both in the Hebrew Scriptures and here in the […]
Do Friendships Matter?
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang […]
Bulletin Insert: Week 1 – Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent – March 6, 2022
The journey through Lent into Easter is a journey with Jesus. We are baptized into his life, self-giving, and death; then, we rise in hope to life transformed. This Lent, communities are invited to walk with Jesus in his Way of Love and into the experience of transformed life.
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 7 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: The Diocese of Botswana and the Diocese of North Carolina – February 20, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features Professor James Nathaniel Amanze and the Rev. Bonny Bashe of the Diocese of Botswana, in the Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa, and the Rev. Miriam Saxon and the Rev. Leon Spencer of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina.
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 6 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: Fr. Bruce Woodcock and the Ven. Samuel J. Ponniah – February 13, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features the Rev. Canon Bruce Woodcock, Partnership Officer for Asia and the Pacific, and the Ven. Samuel J. Ponniah, Archdeacon of Jaffna, Diocese of Colombo, in the Anglican Church of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 5 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: The Diocese of New York and the Diocese of Central Tanganyika – February 6, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features Mr. Patrick Kidd, chair of the Diocese of New York’s Global Mission Commission, Canon Ernest Ndahini of the Msalato Theological College, Central Tanganyika Diocese, in the Anglican Church of Tanzania, and Deacon Robin Newman, chair of the Diocese of New of York’s Tanzania Task Force.
Ash Wednesday
The Collect: Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus […]
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 4 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: The Very Rev. Sally Sue Hernández and the Rev. Glenda McQueen – January 30, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features the Rev. Glenda McQueen, Episcopal Church Partnership Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Very Rev. Sally Sue Hernández, Dean of the Catedral Anglicana de San José de Gracia, in the Anglican Church of Mexico. Watch their discussion at iam.ec/epiphany2022 and follow along by yourself or in a small group.
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 3 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: The Ven. Paul Feheley and the Rev. Zhu Peijin – January 23, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features the Ven. Paul Feheley, Episcopal Church Partnership Officer for the Middle East, and the Rev. Zhu Peijin, Assistant Priest in the Parish and Chaplaincy of St. Paul, Kuwait, in the Anglican Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf. Watch their discussion at iam.ec/epiphany2022 and follow along by yourself or in a small group.
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 2 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: Fr. Daniel Karanja, Bishop Rose Okeno, and Bishop Vicentia Kgabe – January 16, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features the Rev. Daniel Karanja, Episcopal Church Partnership Officer for Africa, the Rt. Rev. Rose Okeno, Bishop of Butere in the Anglican Church of Kenya, and the Rt. Rev. Vicentia Kgabe, Bishop of Lesotho in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. Watch their discussion at iam.ec/epiphany2022 and follow along by yourself or in a small group.
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 1 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: St. Luke’s, Rio de Janeiro, and Good Shepherd, Covington – January 9, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features parishioners Heather and Christine from the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Covington, Georgia, and the congregation’s Anglican Communion partners, Priscilla and Filipe from St. Luke’s Church in Rio de Janeiro, Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil.
Bible Study: Epiphany 1 (C) – 2022
RCL: Isaiah 43:1-7; Psalm 29; Acts 8:14-17; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Isaiah 43:1-7 As we remember Jesus’ baptism in the River Jordan, the prophet Isaiah’s words speak to us about the profound faithfulness of God. In this passage, God promises his chosen people that he will be with them no matter what. During my undergraduate days […]
Epiphany Resources
The season of Epiphany is when we celebrate the revealing of Christ to the world. We mark the arrival of the One who is the light of the world: a light that brings life, a light that brings hope. This light shines its brightest when we are in community – with God and with one […]
Bulletin Insert: Advent 4 (C) – Fourth Week of Advent: Journeying in the World – December 19, 2021
As we come closer to the joy and promise of the Incarnation, we invite you to continue journeying the Way of Love. Consider this week which of the seven practices captured your imagination this Advent.
Bulletin Insert: Advent 3 (C) – Third Week of Advent: Journeying with Community – December 12, 2021
As we continue our Advent walk, we invite you to see the Way of Love as a journey that includes the community. The witness of Zechariah and Elizabeth who bring infant John to the Temple to be circumcised reminds us of the importance of our faith community to sustaining the Way of Love.
Bulletin Insert: Advent 2 (C) – Second Week of Advent: Journeying with Family and Friends – December 5, 2021
As we continue our Advent walk, we invite you to see the Way of Love as a journey that can expand to include family and friends. Mary said “yes” to the call to birth Jesus, God’s Word, into the world and immediately went in haste to share her good news with her cousin, Elizabeth—a four-day journey into the Judean hills. Isn’t that what happens when we hear good news? We are driven to go and tell others. The Way of Love is good news that demands to be shared.
Bulletin Insert: Advent 1 (C) – First Week of Advent: Saying “Yes” to the Journey – November 28, 2021
As Advent begins this week, we invite you to orient yourself to the coming of Jesus at Christmas through the practices of Journeying the Way of Love. This journey begins by saying “yes” to God’s call to birth new life into the world—a call that is both powerful and gentle, a call that will, if fully embraced, grow beyond our imaginations, spilling out of ourselves and into our family, friends, community, and the whole world.
Bible Study: Advent 4 (C) – 2021
RCL: Micah 5:2-5a; Canticle 15 (or 3) or Psalm 80:1-7; Hebrews 10:5-10; Luke 1:39-45, (46-55) During Advent and Christmas, we will be using study prompts and other activities tied to the sermon for the week. Read the sermon aloud and follow-up with spoken responses to the two questions at the end. Find our full sermon […]
Bible Study: Proper 23 (B) – 2021
RCL: Job 23:1-9, 16-17; Psalm 22:1-15; Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31 Job 23:1-9, 16-17 In this reading, we find the ever-faithful Job trusting in his God but nonetheless turning bitter and confused as the realities of life begin to torment him. As his pitiful situation drags on with his friends and family adding to his problems […]