May 12, 2019: The Fourth Sunday of Easter, Rev. Candice Frazer
A friend of mine and an old acquaintance of yours, Jonathon Chesney, tells a story of a time when he was hiking in Scotland. He describes a beautiful countryside high in the hills with long, meandering roads intersecting green pastureland and flowing creek beds. It was a beautiful blue sky day and he woke with […]
April 28, 2019: The Second Sunday of Easter, The Rev. Candice Frazer
When Steve and I had been married about two years, we decided it was time to try and have children. We both wanted children and were excited about this potential new chapter in our lives. After several months of trying without any success, I went to the doctor who ran some tests on me and […]
February 24, 2019: The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, The Rev. Candice Frazer
Many of you remember Judge Roy Moore’s Ten Commandment monument that he placed in the rotunda of the Alabama Justice building in July of 2001. Prior to his term as an Alabama Supreme Court Justice, Moore had served as a circuit court judge where he displayed a wooden plaque with the Ten Commandments behind his […]
February 17, 2019: The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, The Rev. Candice Frazer
What does it mean to be blessed and what might it mean to be cursed? We spend a lot of time counting our blessings but rarely do we consider that which might curse us. And that makes sense—who wants to think about being cursed in any way? We might lament after a string of bad […]
February 10, 2019: The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, The Rev. Candice Frazer
After the 1995 release of Toy Story, Disney Pixar released a cartoon series based on everyone’s favorite astronaut, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. In an episode entitled, Haunted Moon, Buzz and his crew are sent to assist a crew that is trying to deflect a comet heading straight toward a peaceful planet. The mission is […]
February 3, 2019: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, The Rev. Charles Womelsdorf
January 27, 2019: The Third Sunday after the Epiphany, The Rev. Candice Frazer
In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he helps the Church to begin to define her understanding of how to be in the world. It is one of those descriptions that will stay with her and continue to define her as the Church grows and matures. That description of the Church as the body of Christ […]
January 20, 2019: The Second Sunday after the Epiphany, The Rev. Candice Frazer
Most of us are familiar with the wedding feast at Cana and Jesus’ first miracle. It’s a sweet and fun sort of miracle—easy to understand and joyous. John starts us off with something relatable and simple. We aren’t jumping right in to exorcisms of demons, healing the sick, or raising the dead. Instead we hear […]
January 13, 2019: The Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Rev. Candice Frazer
The book of the Acts of the Apostles describes the story of how the mission of the apostles shifted focus from the Jews to the conversion of Gentiles. We get a brief glimpse of this work in today’s reading from Acts. Phillip, the first travelling evangelist, has converted Gentiles in the region of Samaria. If […]
January 6, 2019: The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Rev. Candice Frazer
Today is the day; Christmas is over. The decorations have been put away. The tree is on the street. The leftovers are gone. The house no longer looks magical but mundane: and so does life. Back to school and work, paying the bills, doing the grocery shopping, driving carpool, and worrying about taxes. It was […]