Happy Pride Month, everyone! This June, Grace is “coming out of the closet” as a congregation that is open, welcoming, supportive, and inclusive of all. In the mid-1990s, shortly after Mac became rector, members of the Grace community engaged in substantial...

Pentecost is one of the Church’s “big three” feast days alongside Christmas and Easter.  And although we had a wonderful celebration and picnic afterward on Pentecost Sunday, the church was not bursting at the seams at multiple services!  I found myself wondering:...

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven, there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a...

This Sunday, May 24th we will gather in the Grace courtyard to continue celebrating the outpouring of the Holy Spirit with a time of food, fun, and fellowship! We hope you join your Grace community at 10:30am after our combined 9am Pentecost Sunday service! PS! It is...

The Gardener Have I lived enough? Have I loved enough? Have I considered Right Action enough, have I come to any conclusions? Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude? Have I endured loneliness with grace? I say this, or perhaps I’m just thinking it....

Last Sunday, as we do every Fourth Sunday of the Easter season, we celebrated Good Shepherd Sunday. Good Shepherd Sunday used to be one of my least favorite Sundays of the church year. In part, I had reacted badly to an overly romanticized, saccharine Victorian image...

Alleluia, Christ is risen!!  Happy Easter! Did you know that Easter lasts for fifty days?  Though the Easter lilies have faded, our celebration of the resurrection of Christ continues. Lent seemed long this year… Six weeks—forty days—can feel like a long...

Thomas hadn’t been there the night Christ first walked through the walls. The apostles told him about this astonishing development the following week, but to Thomas it probably sounded too good to be true. After the terrible death of their leader, his companions had...

The Last Supper They are assembled, astounded, bewildered, round him who, like a sage centered at last, withdraws from those to whom he once belonged and flows beyond them as some foreigner. The former solitude comes over him which raised him to perform his profound...

3/29 - Palm Sunday  @ 8AM | Our normal 8 AM service with Palms!  We will sing “All Glory Laud and Honor” (yes, 8 o’clockers can sing!) and conclude with the reading of the Passion to begin our walk through Holy Week. @ 10AM | The 10 am service will be bilingual and...