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Walking as One: An Invitation to Experience the Labyrinth
I was surprised a couple of years ago at one of our Advent labyrinth walks to hear a long-time, very involved parishioner say that was his first time walking the labyrinth. I have known and loved labyrinths since my early 20's, when I first experienced the...
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...
Walk as one! – World Labyrinth Day Walk!
Saturday May 3 @ 1:00 pm Every year on the first Saturday in May thousands of people around the world participate in World Labyrinth Day as a moving meditation for world peace and shared appreciation of the labyrinth experience. On this 17th annual World Labyrinth...
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...
A Jubilant Lent —Lent V: Jubilee as Returning Home
“You shall hallow the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: you shall return, every one of you, to your family.” (Leviticus 25: 10) The vestry of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Eagle...
Holy Week 2025
Join us as we journey through Holy Week, the most sacred time of our liturgical life. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, we will walk together through Jesus’ passion, death, and resurrection with special services, prayer, and reflections! 4/13- Palm Sunday @...
A Jubilant Lent —Lent IV: Jubilee as a Time to Declare Freedom
Probably we are all familiar with the poem about older age – “when I am an old woman, I shall wear purple”. It is a statement about independence and freedom. It is a declaration of not giving a damn. And it is a fitting quote to introduce the third concept wrapped up...
We are growing together, always.
The Methodist minister and religious educator John Westerhoff identified stages of faith in religious identity and development (List in the graphic above!) Christian faith, like the human body, has an expected pattern of growth and development. The different stages...
What do I do with my anger?
What do I do with my anger? Last week I attended a webinar put on by the Center for Action and Contemplation entitled “What do I do with my anger?” It was headlined by Richard Rohr and Brian McLaren, which motivated me to attend it, but to me the real star of...
A Jubilant Lent —Lent Three: The Jubilee of forgiveness
“Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors” One of the most imaginative elements of the Jubilee in the Book of Leviticus is the canceling of debts, or the reordering of economic life. This involved not only money but more importantly the liberation of...
Letting the land lie fallow
“That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you: you shall not sow or reap the aftergrowth or harvest the unpruned vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat only what the field itself produces” (Leviticus 25: 11-2) I am not a good gardener, let...