Instructions on Not Giving Up

For those of us with children or grandchildren, we feel the big out-breath of being on this side of the ending of the school year – the graduations, the celebrations and promotions. With a great burst of energy and a sigh across the stage or the classroom threshold,...

Grace: The Living Universe

What happens in our brains and bodies as we worship? As an Episcopalian who also happens to be a psychotherapist, I’ve long been fascinated by how the mind works, especially when it encounters the divine. Our mind is the setting for a host of mental activities, like...

Grace Is Coming Out of the Closet!

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...

When the Holy Spirit Shows Up, Things Begin to Move

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:...

WHOOOOSH!

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...