September 14, 2022 Beloved in Christ: It is easy to forget, in our busy lives and our mainly local church context, that we are connected at Calvary to a worldwide network of faith communities that live, interact, and are woven together in the Anglican Communion.  Sometimes, as when someone like

August 10, 2022 Beloved in Christ: Year after year it happens: the end of summer creeps up on us, the State Fair comes along, and the crickets at night offer the last sounds of summer as the nights grow cooler. This year, the end of summer and start of fall,

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