Rogation Sunday

Eric Law, in his Kaleidoscope project, says that the offering of time and place is one of six currencies that are essential to develop for our vitality as Church. The others are wellness, leadership, truth, money, and relationships.  Members of Grace Church,...

A Work Well Begun

Grace Episcopal Church is a “Work well begun”. —That is the name of a movie which Brian Capener produced on the occasion of the expansion and renovation of the Church and the creation of Bourne Hall. There are those of us who were present and made possible the events...

The Word in the Wilderness

“His spirit and his life he breathes in all, Now on this cross his body breathes no more. Here at the center everything is still, Spent, and emptied, opened to the core. A quiet taking down, a prising loose. A cross beam lowered like a weighing scale, Unmaking of each...

A Jubilant Lent —Our Jubilee Moment

Most tea towels hang over the oven door, or on a peg by the kitchen sink, or even in a kitchen drawer; but we have two that hang on the kitchen wall as decorations. They mark the coronation of King Charles III and the Jubilee celebration of his mother, Queen Elizabeth...

Extravagant Acts of Love

“The poor you always have with you,  but you will not always have me” (John 12: 8)  In the Gospel coming up this Sunday, we come across these words of Jesus. He was responding to criticism by Judas Iscariot of Mary, sister of Martha and Lazarus, who at...