Beloved in Christ: Over the past year and some change, the vestry of Calvary has been holding Saturday half-day retreats outside of their regularly scheduled monthly meetings to work in community, listening to the Holy Spirit and to one another, praying, breaking bread together, and visioning about the priorities

Beloved in Christ: Thank you, thank you, for the gift of 6 weeks of sabbatical time this summer. I am back, firmly in place, once again. I will take a little time in mid-October to go to Atlanta to visit my mother; I wanted to wait until the thunderstorms

Beloved in Christ: I write to you from the middle of my summer sabbatical. The past three weeks have been a time of rest, reflection, and appreciating the normal rhythms of life. If that sounds boring, it has been anything but. It has been an enormous blessing to simply

Beloved in Christ: On Vacation To honor the Sabbath is not just to take the day, but to honor the holiness of open time, pausing, holding your hands empty of all but God. Empty your time: give room for God to act, for grace to enter, for wonder to

Beloved in Christ: This week, we wind up the Great Fifty Days of Easter with Pentecost on Sunday. It’s a tradition to wear red on this important day of celebration. Pentecost is the day to honor the birthday of the Church, and this year we have an additional celebration

Beloved in Christ: We do a lot of really important things in this faith community, from our common worship to our hospitality towards one another and visitors, and so much more. One of the most important things that we do is support our children and young people in their