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  • Darkness Shall Not Prevail

    Darkness Shall Not Prevail

    From Nancy Young, National President Advent is a time of waiting and expectation, a time when we look forward to Christmas Day and the celebration of Christ’s birth—a time when we anticipate being with family and celebrating with friends, of gathering in a beautifully decorated church, of enjoying glorious music, and of sharing Eucharist. This…

  • Bishop Duncan’s Christmas Letter

    Bishop Duncan’s Christmas Letter

    From The Rt. Rev. Philip Duncan, National Chaplain December 25, 2020 Each year I prepare for Christmas, and each year I try to think back to the Advents before in hoping to make my process more complete and fruitful in the getting ready. Soon that preparation will be in the past, and Christmas will be here,…

  • Bishop Duncan’s Message Advent 2020

    Bishop Duncan’s Message Advent 2020

    Each year I come to the season of Advent with mixed emotions.  I like Advent, and I like Christmas better.  Advent is the getting ready for Christmas and how we accomplish that matters.  If all of our focus is on Christmas, we miss the opportunity to be ready and refreshed for Christmas. If we rush…

  • A Message from Chris Butterworth

    A Message from Chris Butterworth

    Dear Sisters in Christ, Well here we are again. Advent 2020.  We have spent most of the year waiting – waiting for Covid to end, waiting for a vaccine; waiting for the election (no matter where you stand.) Now, we are approaching Advent – a season of waiting.  Oh boy – more waiting. I was…

  • Advent and the Great Pumpkin

    Advent and the Great Pumpkin

    Watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin”, Charlie Brown with my grandchildren on Halloween, the movie seemed a strange story for children on what is for most a candy filled, fun holiday. Linus waits and waits and waits, accompanied only by the somewhat reluctant Sally, for the coming of the Great Pumpkin whom he assures his friends…

  • Community in the time of Covid-19

    Community in the time of Covid-19

    Community in the Time of COVID-19 by Nancy Young, National President, The Episcopal Community How can we be there when we can’t be there? This is a question that religious groups throughout the church are having to answer during this COVID-19 pandemic. At a time when we must practice social distancing, a time we cannot…

  • Miller’s Moths

    Miller’s Moths

    All these [the Disciples] were constantly devoting themselves to prayer,Together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus,As well as his brothers. When the day of Pentecost had come,they were all together in one place.And suddenly from heaven there came a soundLike the rush of a violent wind and it filledthe entire house where…

  • Pentecost 2020 Bishop Duncan

    Pentecost 2020 Bishop Duncan

    Dear Sisters of The Episcopal Community, As Christians we are always on a holy journey. That journey is sometimes glorious and sometimes not! In that journey we are always traveling on the road of faith and trust in God. For the past 50 days we have followed with the apostles and saints throughout history. We…

  • Easter Message, Nancy Young

    Easter Message, Nancy Young

    A lot can happen in three days . . . Low in the grave He lay low in the graveJesus my saviorWaiting the coming dayJesus my Lord The days after Jesus’s death were a dark time for the disciples. They most likely hid in fear for their lives, not knowing if they might be arrested…

  • Bishop Duncan’s Easter Message

    Bishop Duncan’s Easter Message

    This is a “scary” time for many of us. We can feel out of control. The Easter Message is that in the end our God loves us and that Jesus is the Christ who rose from the tomb and nothing can separate us from that love and life!