This Lent, I signed up for a few different email devotionals to be delivered to my inbox every day. One of these contains brief videos based on a book, Difficult Teachings of Jesus by Matthew Kelly. The author offers snippets of wisdom, full of grace and...
The literary climax of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is a poem entitled ‘The Grand Inquisitor,’ in which Ivan––who is one of the Karamazov brothers––presents a startling challenge to the Christian idea of God. In the poem, Ivan imagines that it...
Four years ago, through a program called ‘Renewal Works’, our parish undertook a deep assessment to determine where we are, as individuals and as a congregation, on our spiritual and theological journey together. One of the things that evolved out of that...
Today's opening letter comes from Susan Attzs-Mendoza, Executive Director of Moravian Open Door, a transitional housing facility for homeless adults and community partner of Incarnation. Susan wrote to the Moravian Open Door Committee the morning after our...
It’s rare that I get to worship seated next to my family, but I love to hear their stories from the pew. A couple of weeks ago my daughter was making fun of my husband at dinner. She claimed that his singing in church was off key and all around terrible. His...