Beloved in Christ: A gathering of important moments of "church business": Last week, I joined with many of our southeastern Episcopal clergy, along with friends, members, and neighbors of the Church of the Redeemer in Cannon Falls, where Bishop Craig Loya led us in a service of deconsecration of

Beloved in Christ: Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. November has arrived, and along with the arrival of truly beautiful fall weather and the first forecast of "some snowflakes mixed with rain," wood fires, and the planning for Thanksgiving travel and food, comes the arrival of

Beloved in Christ: For many years, the liturgy for All Saints' Day has been one of the most meaningful services of the year for me. I like to move the liturgy to the first Sunday of November, so that the whole gathered community can take part, and also because

Beloved in Christ: We have some awesome news! Building Restoration Corporation has finished its months-long work of tuckpointing/repointing our building. From top to bottom, from every side, our building, beginning with the original church building that was built in 1862 and continuing with all of the additions over the

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