Year 2/2014 Statement from the Leadership Team The Stirrings of the Spirit Leadership Team is speaking from a position that allows possibilities to exist. We acknowledge that our posture in this initiative is one of trying to be open to being disturbed by the Spirit, of being vulnerable to the Spirit, of acknowledging the chaos, …
Stirrings of the Spirit Year 2/2014 Statement from the Leadership Team The Stirrings of the Spirit Leadership Team is speaking from a position that allows possibilities to exist. We acknowledge that our posture in this initiative is one of trying to be open to being disturbed by the Spirit, of being vulnerable to the Spirit, …
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Henri Nouwen (1932-1996), in his book on The Return of the Prodigal Son, writes about the week he spent in meditation of Rembrandt’s painting of the same name that lives in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. For hours he sat alone in silence, using the image as an icon. I imagine we all …
Introducing the Keynote Speaker for the 2013 Ministry Expo… The Rev. Donald Joseph SchellPresident, All Saints Company I have worked as a college chaplain, a small town vicar, a founder and builder of a deliberately innovative congregation (in liturgy, organization, mission, and practice of Christian formation), and now as a teaching priest I travel to …
by Maggie Thompson Come to God…and like living stones let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood… 1 Peter 2:4-5 In February, a team of Episcopalians from Vermont traveled to Las Vegas to participate in Living Stones, a partnership of Episcopal and Anglican communities of faith engaged in the ministry …
Bishop Thomas Ely is one of 29 Episcopal bishops who have signed an amici curiae (friends of the courts) brief in the United States Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which prevents the U.S. government from recognizing same-sex civil marriages in their dioceses. The bishops represent 23 of …
Nestled at the edge of a maple-lined gully in our upper pasture is a moldering old relic of rusty tie rods, leaf springs and gears. Like many Vermont hill farms, ours has its own forgotten monuments of ages past; this truck– once gleaming and new–now sits in picturesque obscurity, lonely in its field. Hiking past …
The Episcopal Church in Vermont will welcome The Very Rev. Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, President and Dean, and Professor of Theology, Episcopal Divinity School, as she participates in a variety of events held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington http://www.stpaulscathedralvt.org/ Palm Sunday: President Ragsdale will offer the homily and sermons at the three …
The Lord is my light and my salvation;whom then shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraid ? – Psalm 27 This lovely psalm is filled with hope and faith for me as I journey through the dark winter days and weeks of Lent. It …