Celebrating 20 years of partnership April 28, 2016 Mission In 1996, the Diocese of Southern Ohio was invited to join a radical program after the end of the Cold War with Russia. Fueled by citizen diplomacy, Episcopal Churches across the United States were asked to supp...
Christ is risen! Where is He now? April 28, 2016 Mission During this Eastertide I can’t help but reflect on our risen King and what it means for our world in the here and now. We live in a world full of ugly news brought to reality by ugly people – people that have l...
Seraphim and cherubim and all the company of Heaven April 28, 2016 Formation Kelsey and I are studying the Revelation to Saint John. We’ve studied the Bible together for almost four years, starting when she was a sophomore at OSU. It was a relief to me when she got into OSU medical scho...
Reflections on clergy health April 28, 2016 Relationships He, who plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see it grow, believes in God. If I had a penny for each time I heard my grandmother say that when I was a child, I would never have had to work! With that ma...
Church is good for the heart April 28, 2016 Relationships Dr. Lawson Wulsin presented this talk to his congregation, St. Andrew’s, Evanston, on March 6, 2016. It has been adapted slightly for print. Our rector, John Agbaje, often thanks us for coming to church. One...
Injustice: Make it personal April 28, 2016 Relationships Members of the Confluence Year community recently joined Episcopal Service Corps communities from Chicago, Memphis, and St. Louis for a Midwestern regional retreat in St. Louis, MO. On Sunday morning we atte...
There’s a mouse under the table: “Do you see it?” April 28, 2016 Relationships The conversation was a high-level one. It was filled with lots of legal jargon, theoretical propositions, and possibility conjectures about the obstacles and realities of getting the job done. The topic concern...
Food and faith April 28, 2016 Food Eating. It’s the most basic function of all living creatures. If you don’t eat, you die. But have you ever thought about the fact that eating to live involves the death of other members of God’s creation? F...
Never stop planting seeds April 28, 2016 Food Never stop planting seeds. You can take this as a motto, a philosophy, a practice, even a spirituality. To stop planting seeds is to give in to despair. According to Søren Kierkegaard, despair is a condition of...
CAIN: Oasis in a food desert April 28, 2016 Food, Relationships Churches Active in Northside (CAIN) is an oasis in the food desert that is Cincinnati’s neighborhood of Northside. It is building community and extending caring to neighbors in need of food, shelter and other e...
