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Dear friends, I hope you are all having a good Fourth weekend, Attached is the service sheet for tomorrow's worship. Remember that we have one service at 10 a.m. e-ver-Pentecost-July-3-2022Download Hope to see you then.

Dear friends, Attached is the service bulletin for tomorrow's worship. Remember that beginning next Sunday, July 3, we will be going back to one service at 10 a.m. That will be the schedule for the rest of the summer. The Sunday after Labor Day we will resume the...

Dear friends, It has happened again, and this time in an Episcopal Church. Yesterday evening a man attending a potluck supper at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Vestavia, a suburb of Birmingham, pulled out a gun and began firing. A church member hit the shooter with...

Dear friends, I recently read an article in The New York Times saying that if it seems like everyone you know has Covid it's because they do. That is a bit of an exaggeration, but during the last week I am aware of several people, including parishioners, who have...

Dear friends,                                    Next month the Episcopal Church will hold its General Convention in Baltimore. Each diocese in the Church sends its bishop, four...

Dear friends, Tomorrow we celebrate Pentecost, one of the most joyous days of the church year. It is the day that Jesus' promise of the Holy Spirit comes to fruition. The Spirit appears as tongues of fire above the disciples' heads, and a great rush of wind that blows...

Dear friends, Attached is the bulletin for our worship tomorrow, which will be a service of lament for the victims of the massacres in Uvalde and Buffalo. Our scripture readings, music, and prayers were all chosen to reflect the grief and horror we feel. I hope you...

Dear friends, Twenty-seven years ago today (or this evening) I was ordained to the priesthood at Church of the Ascension in Knoxville. I've spent this anniversary doing something I have had to do too many times in my ordained life -- planning a liturgy in response to...