by Communications Director | Apr 17, 2022 | Bishop's Message, Blog, Featured News
Dear Friends in Christ, I’m wondering how you are experiencing Easter this year. It is our biggest celebration of the Christian year. Many of us will be gathering for the first time after a long time for Holy Communion in our worship spaces. Some of us have been...
by Communications Director | Apr 10, 2022 | Bishop's Message, Blog, Featured News
Dear Friends in Christ, This year, I invite you on Palm Sunday to enjoy the celebration and then prepare to walk with Jesus during the week in which he is crucified and killed. I encourage you to do that by slowing down, taking the time, making the space to enjoy the...
by Communications Director | Mar 27, 2021 | Bishop's Message, Blog, Featured News
Dear friends in Christ,It was the 1970’s and I was gathered around the television with my parents and sister to watch ABC’s Wide World of Sports. The theme music began and Jim McKay’s voice introduced the program. His unique style of intonation and emphasis made the...
by Communications Director | Apr 2, 2020 | Congregational Life
By the Rev. Lawrence Crumb, vicar of St. Andrew’s, Cottage Grove The American playwright Thornton Wilder, best known for the high-school favorite “Our Town,” also wrote a play called “The Skin of Our Teeth.” Written during World War II, each act takes place just...