God is all without being any thing, while being the all in every thing.

It is right and a good and joyful thing to give thanks to you always, Creator God, because you have made the world in all its complexity.

The Year of Luke is the first in a series of commentaries on biblical scripture found in the three-year cycle of Christian liturgical readings of the Revised Common Lectionary. Instead of interpreting these readings as a precursor …

Minister: May it be well with you.
All: And also with you.

Minister: Life is a gift and we are to celebrate it.
All: May we rejoice in the beauty of this special time.

Soulful music that combines elements of folk, blues, jazz, and gospel. Lyrics are spiritual yet progressive, philosophical yet earthy, and realistic yet hopeful. The topics include: enjoying the sacredness of daily life, finding hope in difficult times, …

Christianity follows the humble faith of an empty man. So how did we Christians become so full of ourselves? It’s time to empty ourselves of the belief that our religion is better than others.

Liturgy for a Season Celebrating the Presence of God in His Created World

Visit St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church in Tucson, Arizona. And if you can’t get there in person, here’s a glimpse of a service…

I hope it will be a long time from now; I am grateful to be occupying this body today. But when you see this body lying before you in your gross anatomy lab, don’t call it mine. It will be for you, and for all the patients you will serve in your career as a doctor. Cut this body open with deep reverence, not for me, but for the living people whose bodies you will work to heal. My experience of eternal life during the process of my death will transcend this body completely.

The Nicene Creed was both a religious and a political tool, a humanly constructed statement of belief that gave order and meaning to the world of its time. The question this book raises is whether it still gives order and meaning to our world–or rather, what kind of order and meaning does it give to our world.

And so we gather at the table. We come from many places, differing in age, differing in race, differing in orientation, politics and even religion.

A small table with an unlit candle
sits in the center of an open space.
Those who have come to The Feast
form a circle around the table.

A non-canonical liturgy from the first century.