Reconciling Pain and Suffering When God is Supposed to be Loving In the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, the Lord tells Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated
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Reconciling Pain and Suffering When God is Supposed to be Loving In the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, the Lord tells Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated
Fr. Tim has shared with us that our word “liturgy” comes from a Greek word that means “the work of the people.” This means that when we celebrate the liturgy, the people have a very important role! Without the people
What do you think of when you hear the word “abundance?” To me, abundance means plenty to go around. In a theological sense, we can think of abundance in a way that demonstrates God will take care of
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Becoming Friends With Change that Unsettles Us When I was in college, I worked as a disc jockey at a radio station in El Centro, California. The station, KXO AM 1230, was founded in 1927. Because it is so
The Impact of Vulnerability When I was a child, I lived in a house of secret keepers. Under the guise of “privacy”, our family didn’t share details about our lives with people outside our home. We didn’t share details
Dear Friends, Please enjoy this Monday edition of Aloha Fridays with Fr. Tim. It is the homily I preached at the late Christmas Eve service last night at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist in Glendale, Arizona. I
As we approach the final days of Advent and we finish our final preparations for Christmas, I want to ask you to take a moment to pause and to reflect on something. I want you to think about what
Liturgical Mindfulness in a Dynamic Church Worship in the Episcopal Church takes place during something called a liturgy. This is not unique to the Episcopal Church. Our Christian cousins in the Latin Rite, the Orthodox Rite, Lutheranism, and a