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Today, just a reminder that Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost. This threshold from one Church Season to another offers us a spiritual treasure house of insight and wisdom and instruction on how to take seriously and actually practice our faith in such a way that our life is changed! For 50 days we have…

Recently I've been struggling alongside some dear friends, trying to get to the root of a systemic challenge in a community. In fact, this has become a full blown development of a strategic plan! And I've made an important discovery that I'm sure won't surprise you, but it has been a concrete revelation to me:…

Sometimes what's best for us isn't really apparent in the middle of our journey. It's only later we discover that an event, though difficult at the time, actually turned out to be the best thing for us. As the old country song says "They hindsight 20/20..." This coming Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost, the…

All too often we spend our lives waiting for that perfect moment when everything is going "right" and all around me is positive and affirming. And, the longer we live, the more disillusioned we become because that "moment" seems to never come! Oh, to be sure, there are flashes of "just right" in our lives.…

Today is the Feast of the Ascension, and this Feast begs the question: What is this whole ascending from the Mount of olives all about? Why didn't Jesus just "POOF" disappear and go to the Father's side? Why all this theatrics? It is almost axiomatic that any truth or tradition sufficiently removed from its Source…

Christ is risen! (The last time we will say this until next Pascha. Today is the Apodosis (the Leavetaking) of the Feast of Pascha!) Have you ever thought about thresholds? Yeah, thresholds. They are important architectural structures. They let you know when you're passing from the kitchen to the diningroom or from the hallway to…