by Karen | Apr 30, 2025 | Reflections
I have quite a few anecdotes that make it easy to explain why I love being a priest at St. Clare’s so much. Probably the most succinct one, though, is that a year or so ago I asked a few folks “what if one Sunday morning we sent all the adults downstairs for bible...
by Karen | Apr 4, 2025 | Reflections
God seems to have a little hobby of renaming people at dramatic points in their lives. Jacob’s grandparents Abram and Sarai became Abraham and Sarah after God visited them to tell them they would have a child. Many centuries later, Jesus renamed Simon as Peter...
by Karen | Mar 25, 2025 | Reflections
Recently while I was looking for something else, I found a pile of cloth face masks in many colors. I started sewing them by hand 5 years ago during all those early-Covid-era Zoom meetings when I desperately needed something to do with my hands to keep my anxiety...
by Karen | Mar 19, 2025 | Reflections
In these weeks of so much destruction, the themes of Ash Wednesday have stayed present to me as Lent has unfolded: the finitude and potential present in ash. There have also been, as there so often are, a lot of emails, and so I hadn’t caught up on Kate Bowler’s...
by Karen | Mar 12, 2025 | Reflections
During the next few months, Eliza and I are planning a few new ways to help engage kids in what’s going on during communion. Whatever works: First of all, there’s no right or wrong way for them to engage, and each kid is different (and then they grow and change and...
by Karen | Mar 5, 2025 | Reflections
by the Rev. Toby Darrah In our “Love God, Love God’s World” discussion group this week, one of the things we talked about was the ways in which we feel more connected to the earth. I mentioned that something I’ve noticed is that I feel more connected not only to the...
