Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! I’m writing you all this week from Waycross where I’m attending an Episcopal training course from the College for Congregational Development (CCD). Here, I, John Hegedus and Andrew Miller are learning about models for examining our congregation and processes for …
A Word: To Soften Our Hearts
Work, rest, and the rest of our livesProper 11B | Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 There is something deceptive in our reading of the gospel this morning. Nothing sinister or conniving. Nobody is trying to pull anything over. It’s just, deceptively quaint-sounding given the context. Given the subject matter …
Rest / Time
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Reflecting on the concept of rest this week, I’m reminded of a book I read last year: Saving Time by Jenny Odell is a brilliant meditation on time, life, and purpose. She breaks open our common understanding of time as something linear, physical, like a commodity …