August 3, 2022 Beloved in Christ: A year ago, we welcomed our seminary intern, Dr. Gerardo Aponte-Safe. It has been a joy and an honor to journey with Gerardo this past year and to get to know him, his husband Dean, his ministry skills, his deep faith and his great

July 15, 2022 Beloved in Christ: I’m delighted to announce that we have hired our new parish administrator. His name is Bob McCurdy and you will love meeting and talking with him. He started working here just this week and I’m relieved and grateful already for his presence among us.

June 8, 2022 Beloved in Christ: A very blessed Trinity Sunday to you all.  In our tradition, Trinity Sunday always follows Pentecost, and then we enter into the longer church season called Ordinary Time that holds the stores of Jesus’ pilgrimage through his life, this year from the point of

June 1, 2022 Beloved in Christ: This past winter, when the war started in Ukraine, I learned of an outreach and prayer project at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chattanooga, TN. This church is in bustling downtown Chattanooga, and they built a prayer wall that offered a chance for passersby

May 25, 2022 Beloved in Christ: Today I was going to write to you about the joy of the end of a school year, our pride and love for our high school seniors, and the longed for relief of entering into the rhythms of summer in all areas of our

May 11, 2022 Beloved in Christ: The Holy Spirit is working among us, stirring up our curiosity, our creativity, our faith and our hope. I see the signs of this at Calvary and in our neighborhood every day. The Rev. Paul Ehling and I have been talking, wondering, discerning and