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Rector’s Summer Reading

News | June 5, 2021

Dear Epiphany, As summer sets upon us, I hope you have an opportunity to do some reading. Maybe you’ll even join me in reading Timothy Keller’s new book Hope in Times of Fear. I’m a fan of Mr. Keller, having been influenced by his wonderful book The Reason for God. Keller wrote that book 20+

Choosing Safer Church: Guidelines from CDC

News | May 1, 2021

Dear Epiphany It may be that as quickly as the pandemic came upon us it will recede out from under us here in the United States. The miracle is the vaccine, and a picture is worth 1000 words. Click here to find the Choosing Safer Activities poster (put out by the CDC) that reveals

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

A Holy Season of Lent

News | February 15, 2021

Dear Epiphany, Lord Jesus, Sun of righteousness, shine in our hearts, we pray; dispel the gloom that shades our minds and be to us as day. And it goes on: Give guidance to our wandering ways, forgive us, Lord, our sin; restore us by your loving care to peace and joy within.

Introducing the Gospel of Mark: 5 Minutes at a Time

News | February 14, 2021

I think my attention span has atrophied during the pandemic, or maybe I’m just distracted by all the craziness in the world, or maybe my mind is just wearing out, but irrespective of cause, the reality is that bite-size information input is sometimes just better. And so, for those of you like me, I am

The Times They Are A-Changing (Starting February 21)

News | February 12, 2021

1st Sunday service: 8:45 am 2nd Sunday service: 10:45 am You might not know this, but I’m a moderately big Bob Dylan fan, and while he didn’t inspire me to change in-person Sunday morning service times, he did remind me to remind you that, indeed, the times are a-changing. 9:00 am is now 8:45

This Lent, Challenge Yourself with Morning Prayer

News | February 12, 2021

Dear Epiphany, I want to invite you to the 2021 Lenten Morning Prayer Challenge! Here is how you can turn your Lent from a time of joy to a grueling exercise that feels like running through purgatory wearing lead boots—Morning Prayer. Just kidding. Actually, what I promise is that the invitation to daily morning prayer

COVID-19 Protocol Update

News | February 6, 2021

Dear Epiphany, The spiritual journey is a wide path separated by narrow passages. It makes me think of the deep caverns carved by running water in Monument State Park, Utah; or the cathedrals carved by hand below ground by monks in Ethiopia; or the wind-ripped gullies that shaped the sacred places of Petra. What is

Tomorrow is the Feast of the Epiphany

News | January 5, 2021

Dear Epiphany, Imagine living in a world where the night sky was an intimate part of your everyday existence. Where the stars and their patterns of travel were familiar to you, even conversational. Where you might say to a friend, did you notice Orion turned, or Jupiter flared (I don’t even know enough to give

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