by Karen | May 15, 2025 | Reflections
A teacher of mine used to say that conducting operas / musicals was like learning how to drive a stick shift car. Your body and your brain are working on multiple planes simultaneously, and once you’ve done that, driving an automatic vehicle (ONLY playing an...
by Karen | May 6, 2025 | Reflections
This Sunday we will be celebrating the baptism of Tommy and Theo Daniels! We’ll officially welcome them into our church family and reaffirm our own commitment to follow the way of Christ, while the parish community promises to help them and their family grow into...
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...
