Dear St. James’ Parish Family, It is hard to believe it is November! This is a month of turning in the church year. We begin with the great Feast of All Saints and end with the start of the new church year when we enter Advent. Throughout it all, symbols help point us along the way. Beginning on All Saints you will notice a…
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This Sunday you are invited to bring your pledge cards to church and to gather with others in making an offering at the altar. Once gathered, our gifts will be blessed. The wonderful thing about St. James’ is that there is already so much here. When I share why I felt called to this community…
Bring your smart phones and your tablets to church this Sunday for Social Media Sunday! Check in to Facebook, update your status & tell everyone you are at church, tweet the sermon, Instagram a selfie or other pic from church! Please hashtag all posts with both #stjamesmtairy and #SMS15. And if you haven’t already, don’t forget to LIKE our Facebook Page…
Dear St. James’ Parish Family, As we turn the page on the calendar to October there is much to be thankful for, and much to look forward to in our community. To begin the month, I am so excited for the Mt. Airy Fall Festival October 3 & 4 and to work our Basket Raffle table. I…
This Sunday I hope you join me in conversation as we pick up where Ask the Rector left off last week as I take a turn asking YOU some questions! And because I know that the formation hour between services doesn’t work for everyone, I want to share a few of my questions here so that if you aren’t able to join…
Over the next two Sundays I hope to sit down and start a conversation with many of you. I say start, because one of the things I believe is that healthy relationships require ongoing conversation. Conversation comes from the Latin roots con (together) and verto (to turn). At its most basic, then, conversation means to turn together or to turn to one…
Dear St. James’ Parish Family, It’s been a great first week at St. James’ and it’s only been a day and a half! It is great to finally be with you and I am looking forward to worshipping with those of you who will be around this holiday weekend. The good news is that I’ll be the following Sunday too! As I wrote about…
As most of you know by now, Sunday, August 16th will be my last day as your Interim Rector, which means that my tenure here will have been eighteen months to the day. As is always the case with experiences that have been rich and meaningful, it seems like both far longer and far shorter than that to me. From my very…
Because I spent far too long in school, my head is full of lots of odd stories about how Christians have worshiped through the ages. This one is particularly unusual and, I think, fascinating, as it was one of the important but pretty well forgotten causes of the Reformation. –Bill Doggett The Middle Ages were a time of tremendous change and social…
The news from Baltimore has touched all of us in one way or another. It may be the injury and death of Freddie Gray, or the grief of his family and community, or the anger of many, or the peaceful marches, or the violent protests, or the looting and destruction of property, or the history of mistrust, inequality and injustice that gets…