Screenagers: Growing up in the digital age – Indian Hill Church
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MVERN celebrates 20 years of friendship
The Episcopal Church has a long history of cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church, going back to the early 19th century when Episcopalians in California offered hospitality to Russian congregations and co...
Called to mission with our neighbors
GEMN? When we told people we were going to the GEMN conference some looked at us with a quizzical look like “why would a clergy person be going to a jewelers’ convention?” Acronyms are great for those in the kn...
Well done, good and faithful servant
Just as many of our congregations face reductions, it is with a heavy heart that Bishop Breidenthal has made the decision to reduce diocesan staff as well. The bishop announced July 15 that the position of Cano...
Everyone is our neighbor
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, (Galatians 3:28)
This teaching of Jesus that was central to his life and work, was not only revolutionary in His day, ...
Mission to Seafarers welcomes strangers with peace, vegetables
In a plot that cozies up to the Duwamish Waterway, in the shadow of tug boats and a grain storage warehouse, is an unlikely sight: eight raised beds of lettuces, green tomatoes and squash blossoms.
There...
Food for thought
The Diocese of Southern Ohio has a long history of mission to inland mariners who work on the boats transporting goods up and down the Ohio River through the Seamen’s Church Institute’s Christmas on the River i...
Microenterprise: Neighbors helping neighbors
Neighbors helping neighbors in Ironton
In the heart of Appalachia, jobs – or the lack of them – is a huge issue. Once the big manufacturers left the area, an economy built on shoes, and steel, mining and refin...
Book review: Americanah
Who is our neighbor? An essential question in the face of current political rhetoric around the issue of immigration and rising racial tensions in the US. Who is our neighbor and how do we define ‘neighborlines...
An immersion in Russia
During my stay in Sablino, I enjoyed many walks around the town as well as weekly services at St. Nicholas Church. Although I was raised Episcopalian, I find the Russian Orthodox religion fascinating and spiri...