Beloved in Christ: It could have been my hip or my knee - common areas of complaint from an active lifestyle after many years - but it is my thumb. Yes, I have been felled by intensely painful arthritis in my left hand and thumb. I am far from

Beloved in Christ: This Sunday is the annual meeting of the congregation of Calvary. As we have done for a few years now, we will have only one service, at 10:30, and we will surround our business meeting with our Liturgy of the Word and Sacrament - the readings

Beloved in Christ: Happy New Year - I pray for a healthy, safe, and productive new year for you all. Most of all, I pray for a new year wherein we all take up the work of compassion, justice, grace, and love once again. And that God gives us

Beloved in Christ: Calvary's loving and fun fellowship was on full display this past weekend; the kitchen humming with children baking and decorating cookies, and over 90 people staying after church to enjoy a delicious taco lunch, buy cookies from those baking kids, decorate the tree in Brackenridge Hall

Beloved in Christ: In the Episcopal Church, we gather for common prayer. We kneel together for the Holy Eucharist every Sunday, which means that we also gather around the Eucharist. Worship of God is at our core, and everything else that we do comes out of that action, that

Beloved in Christ: We sit on the cusp of change in our country. We deal with change every day of our lives, but the changes that will occur because of our national and local elections, no matter their outcome, at least "feel" bigger, too big for some of us