Spiritual Communion This Lent

The day that I announced that I was leaving Grace Church in California and that you all announced that you’d called me as your rector was a great but also very long day. Myles and I woke up super early that morning to FaceTime with a realtor who was showing us the...

Summer Seminarian: Housing Connection Needed

We have the opportunity to have a summer seminarian this summer at St. Clare’s! There is a diocesan grant available to help us with the cost, but to make this opportunity financially feasible, we need to find free or lower cost, furnished housing in the Ann Arbor area...

Invitations

It’s a bit of a cliché, but a useful one in this season: we need invitations to slow down and take a breath! Each of us needs this invitation in different ways, and we probably each know a person who might need to hear that invitation from you. So here are a few...

Why St. Clare’s?

Did you catch our amazing “Why St. Clare’s?” stewardship talks this year? You can listen to these profound words by Christine O’Konek, Sam Nuxoll, Peter Millar, and Carolyn Blackmore here. We’ll celebrate our common commitment to building up our community on December...

Beyond New Beginnings

Dear friends, One of my happiest memories from this wild and wonderful first year with you all at St. Clare’s happened at our annual meeting on Zoom, way back in January. During it, we had a time for sharing moments of joy and gratitude from the past year; we spent a...

November Prayer Calendar

My wonderful clergy coach, Laura Stephens-Reed, created this prayer calendar for November, to help us pray in gratitude for the saints that have shaped us and formed us. I’ll be praying with it during November; I hope it will be meaningful to some of you too! -Rev....