You are welcome here. What we believe We believe our core work as Christians is to love God with our whole being and to love our neighbors as ourselves. What kind of Christians are we? Find answers to your questions about what it means to be an Episcopalian. What makes us joyful? What are we…

[RCL] Isaiah 40:21-31; Psalm 147:1-12, 21c; 1 Corinthians 9:16-23; Mark 1:29-39 Servant ministry is presented in our Gospel reading for today in a way that first sounds like something much less than Good News as we meet Simon Peter’s mother-in-law. Three verses of scripture contain everything we know about this healing encounter. Listen as I…

“When was the last time you met the devil?,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori asked in her February 21 sermon at All Saints Episcopal Church in Omaha, Nebraska (Diocese of Nebraska) during a meeting of the Church”s Executive Council. The full text of the sermon follows: February 21, 2010 All Saints Episcopal Church,…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s sermon delivered at a June 22 churchwide revival at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky, the evening before the start of the 81st General Convention of The Episcopal Church.

God, our strength and our hope, grant us the courage of John the Baptist, constantly to speak the truth and boldly to rebuke injustice, with eyes open to recognize God among us. We are in the season of Epiphany, the season of growing light, the season of the Magi and the revelation of Christ to…

What does our culture, our society, tell us about dancing? Does it celebrate it? Does it embrace and expand upon it, helping it to infuse our movements through the world? Does it teach us to inhabit the expressive potential of our bodies, coordinated and rhythmic? Or does it narrow it, relegate it to the back…

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 The wall surrounding Jerusalem is finally completed, despite local detractors, and as the people have returned from exile, they are re-establishing traditions. When we think of walls today, perhaps the fall of the Berlin Wall comes to mind, but the wall around this city was protection against hostile neighbors, rather than…

Picture it: The disciples are gathered for worship, as was their custom. They’ve brought with them some bread and some wine, and perhaps some olives or a few pieces of broiled fish. They arrive at the specified location, greet one another with the kiss of peace, and then begin their simple and intimate worship service….

You are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. He who is greatest among you shall be your servant. For whatever reason, those who organized our lectionary readings for Sunday mornings have too often cut a passage short, often resulting in making it impossible to truly understand…

[RCL]: Exodus 12:1-14; Psalm 149; Romans 13:8-14; Matthew 18:15-20 The ocean is one of the most beautiful of all God’s creations. If you sit at the shoreline, you can never see where the ocean ends. There is a lot to be learned from sitting and looking at the ocean; if you are present at high…