With Pentecost behind us, the Church leaves the festival season that began with Advent/Christmas/Epiphany and was shortly followed by Lent/Easter/Pentecost. But there are images from Pentecost that linger with me and ask important questions of us as a community as we move into the long summer season the Church calls “Time After Pentecost,” or “ordinary … Continue reading Message: Pastor’s Newsletter Article: June, 2010 →

Pentecost Sunday is the culmination of a season of readings from Acts in which the early church is confronted over and over again with the radical diversity the Holy Spirit embraces - from Peter's encounter with Cornelius to Paul's encounter with Lydia, the book of Acts gives us story after story about the boundary breaking … Continue reading Message: Diverse by Design… →

In the reading for Acts assigned for this Sunday, Paul and Silas encounter a young slave girl whose illness is being used for profit by her captors. When they heal her of the spirit that possesses her, the girl’s owners have the two thrown in prison for disrupting the social order. But from the confines … Continue reading Message: Liberating the Captor →