Sunday Eucharist | 10:30 (Choral)
Imagine if your body parts and organs could be replaced with bionic counterparts – imagine being unhindered by the constraints that embodiment places upon us. Would we as humans no longer be vulnerable to disease and damage? Would we continue…
Like many of us, I take our little dog for her early morning walk, sometimes in pjs, more often dressed for the day. One lot at the corner of our block is enclosed in a dense, green, leafy hedge. As…
We proclaim a God who created a place, who made a place among a particular people, who became a human place in Jesus, and invites us humanity to celebrate, work, and rest alongside God in this place. What is this place? What does it mean to dwell in a place, to be shaped by the culture and politics of a place, to be vulnerable bodies in a broken place, to create a place of belonging and compassion through community and liturgy? What kind of place are we, and what kind of place are we becoming?
I am coyote, canis latrans, “The laughing dog.” But I am no ordinary coyote. I am Urban Coyote. I live right here in Tacoma and in cities across the country. People are surprised to see me in the concrete jungle…
The news these last few weeks has been so sensational, it’s no surprise that what doesn’t have a simple sound-byte or grisly video slides under the radar. But for anyone who cares about Creation (or children…or their own personal safety…),…
“Where there is no vision the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18) In biblical language the word “vision” means the sense of the presence of God. If we see the world with this sense, we see everything as a manifestation of the…
June 14, 2024 Many folks living around us are in a relationship with trees, or so say readers of the Seattle Times.[1] Maybe you’re one of them. It happened to me, too. Back in Missouri, as Dee and I were hiking…
Friends from our Greening Ministry Team enjoyed our first outing together at the Tacoma Nature Center on Saturday May 25, which took place from 1:30-3pm. Loren and CJ, who are naturalists at the Nature Center, led us on a walk with…
When you are out for a walk, do you ever find trash? Do you ever pick it up? On a recent Saturday morning, I joined approximately 20 other individuals who were as eager as I was to help pick up…
May 5 to May 8 Rogation Days are an old tradition in the church, especially in the Anglican and Episcopal traditions, although they originated in France in the fifth century. In England Rogation Days are associated with the blessing of…