Pastoral Letter: The Road Ahead September, 2021
September 27, 2021 Dear ECOT Parish Family and many friends, I write to share timely updates about the next month and the road ahead for our beloved ECOT. Following a
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May 26, 2021 Dear ECOT Parish Family and many friends, We are pleased to announce major steps in returning to full Sunday worship beginning this Sunday, May 30th!!
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Step by Step
No Lenten devotional would be complete without visiting the pioneering, foundational Twelve Steps of the personal recovery movement. The theological influence immediately evident derives from an Episcopal priest, Father Sam
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Recovery
Lots of “Re’s” in our world right now….rebuild, reframe, refocus, to name a few. It is undoubtedly a season of recovery. I’m finding it helpful to look towards experts in
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Light in the Darkness
Dear readers, in this penultimate daily devotional, we close our Epiphanytide season. We also step through a major liminal threshold as we pass from the Advent/Incarnation/Epiphany focus of our Christian
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Waffles or Apples for All!
Happy Last Sunday of Epiphany ya’ll! Seriously, that’s the official prayer book designation for today! By tradition we close Epiphanytide with the greatest Epiphanic moment of Jesus’ ministry short of
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Absalom
It has been my honor to introduce you to many varied Christian personages throughout these reflections and devotionals, many you already know at least by reputation. It is my honor
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Late last year I saw a friend in the Homestead Court Club weight room. As he was leaving I said casually, “Take care. See you back soon!” His reply? “No,
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While You Were Quarantining Part Three Part Two
All Saints enjoys some spectacular hymnody! Two of my favorites are I Sing a Song of the Saints of God and For All the Saints. Lesbia Lesley Scott (1898-1986)
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While You Were Quarantining Part Three Part One
I’d like to close our liturgical calendar circle by re-visiting the final significant holidays of the Christian year we missed previously. Come fall harvest time, as agricultural societies the world
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