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Lent with Intent

News | February 17, 2023

Lent is a season of self-reflection and spiritual growth that lasts for 40 days before Easter Sunday. But why? Why do we mark this season? The answer lies in the the story we tell throughout the liturgical year: If Christmas was our celebration of the Incarnation, then Lent is the time we live into its

Adult Formation in Lent

News | March 9, 2022

March 13, 20, 27, & April 3, 10 | Great Hall & Zoom Lent is a season when Christians traditionally choose a spiritual discipline to practice, which we hope will draw us closer to God. We often think of this as a time of deprivation and sacrifice, but experimenting with spiritual disciplines can be

Our Ancestor was a Wandering Foreigner

Sermon | March 6, 2022

“Arami Oved Avi” (Ah-RAM-ee Oh-VED Ah-VEE) or, as we heard it in the reading from Deuteronomy, “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor.” Today’s Old Testament lesson contains a phrase we might be tempted to skip over. After all, it sounds a lot like one of those “begat” sections of the Bible, and in any case,

This Lent: Epiphany’s Catechumenate

News | February 19, 2022

Adult Baptism and Confirmation Class March 2 | 6:00 – 7:15 pm March 13, 20, 27 & April 4, 10 | 4:00 – 5:15 pm Christie House Library As Lent approaches, I want to invite you to consider being part of the catechumenate. It is a word for the ancient time of Christian instruction

Homily for the Feast of the Annunciation

News | March 25, 2021

Society teaches us to set our sights on a goal and to organize life around the achievement of that goal, in the same way that you might choose a point on a map and then plan a route to arrive there. What happens if we take away the goal, and put down the map, and

Pilgrimages From Home

Sermon | March 21, 2021

Not long before the pandemic began last year, some fantastic Epiphanites loaned me three books before we knew what would unfold during these intervening 12 months. “A year later, these three books (kept in Ziploc bags as I do since I worked in a bookstore where we could read any book for free as long

Confrontng Evil When it Lives in the Light

Sermon | March 14, 2021

I’ve finished a book recently called The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It’s a story of a young girl whose brother dies and mother abandons her into foster care. It takes place in Germany during WWII. The town she lands in is Molching, with a family living on the wrong side of the tracks, barely

Aunt Maria and Zeal

Sermon | March 8, 2021

“Zeal for your house will consume me.” That is a word I get excited about, zeal. It is a word that gets a bad rap—a zealot, a person blindly compelled by an idea, irrespective of its costs, particularly cost to relationship. I believe zeal means just the opposite. I believe zeal is all about relationship.

A Perfect Season for Consideration

News | March 6, 2021

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” In some ways, the words of Charles Dickens capture the essence of this pandemic for our nation. Indeed, it is easy to chronicle the Tale of Two Cities-esque blight of COVID-19: poverty, unemployment, depression, increase in suicide, ruptured education, malnutrition…all the things that

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