by admin | Feb 6, 2025 | The Dean's Corner
Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) was one of 10 agencies with federal contracts to resettle refugees on behalf of the State Department. With funding for EMM and similar agencies halted last week, the agency has ceased operations. Consider what that ministry looked...
by admin | Jan 29, 2025 | The Dean's Corner
Once every seven years, the feast of the Presentation of our Lord falls on a Sunday, giving us a chance to celebrate Candlemas in our Sunday worship. It’s a part of the Epiphany season when, along with the baptism of Jesus and the miracle of the wedding at Cana, we...
by admin | Jan 23, 2025 | The Dean's Corner
If you’re looking for an example of courage, look no further than Bishop Mariann Budde’s sermon from Washington National Cathedral at this week’s Service of Prayer for the Nation, held the day after President Trump’s inauguration. At the conclusion of a powerful...
by admin | Jan 16, 2025 | The Dean's Corner
Even those of us who find racism to be abhorrent and sinful may be surprised to learn that the lingering assumptions we hold about race are generally false. How do we come to view our neighbors as different from us – especially when that difference is skin...
by admin | Jan 9, 2025 | The Dean's Corner
Our baptism is not just about imitation; our baptism also calls us to the work of social justice. In 1982, the World Council of Churches describe that baptized Christians Have a common, responsibility, here and now, to bear witness together to the Gospel of Christ....
by admin | Jan 2, 2025 | The Dean's Corner
The twelve days of Christmas are not just a song, nor are they what clergy rely on for downtime following the busy Christmas season. These twelve days thread together two principal feasts of the church – Christmas and The Epiphany –to form a holy season in which we...
