by Communications | Oct 2, 2024 | Blog
It has been a long time since I have given serious thought to the “scandal of denominations”. Sarah’s sermon on Sunday, however, brought it back to my attention, and I wondered if she was expressing a perspective of a new generation of Christian thinkers who have...
by Communications | Sep 25, 2024 | Blog
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” – William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1 I have seen Much Ado About Nothing many times, and just saw it again (twice!) while at the American Players Theater in Spring Green,...
by Communications | Sep 18, 2024 | Blog
Apparently, a child up to the age of six has little notion of time. I learned this while undertaking an orientation of Grace’s Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program. Jennifer Bell, our catechist guide for the day said that it takes at least two hours, and ideally...
by Communications | Sep 17, 2024 | Blog
In this coming Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus asks his disciples: “Who do people say that I am?” We find the story in chapter 8 of Mark’s Gospel, and so since Mark has sixteen chapters, it would seem fair to say that it’s a mid-course assessment kind of question. The...
by Communications | Sep 9, 2024 | Blog
There are two “first” questions in the beginning of the Bible. One comes from God’s adversary, the serpent, who asks Eve, “Did God really say, “You shall not eat from any tree in the garden?’” And the other comes after that challenge, when God asks Adam and...
by Communications | Aug 27, 2024 | Blog
Last Fall and this past Spring, over 100 Grace members attended a Sustaining Grace Gathering – small social events in fellow parishioners’ homes. “Reconnect and Renew” was our Grace theme in 2022, and at these gatherings in the Fall of 2023 and the Spring of 2024 we...
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