Dec
14
2009
This is an article written by Stacy from December’s Broadcast, a monthly e-zine published by the Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministries. The rest of the e-zine (worth a read) can be found here. Evangelism: More Questions than Answers. That’s the Point. Over the past few months, I’ve been having many conversations about faith [...]
Dec
10
2009
Highlights of the Past Year 2008–2009: Note that photos, text and audio of several of these events and activities can be found on the Reflections page of our site. At Brent House: Renewed Mission and Vision statements (near-final drafts, which echo the Diocesan vision, “Form the faithful, grow the church, change the world.”): Brent House’s [...]
Dec
07
2009
Stacy Alan Sermon preached on November 29, 2009, Advent 1 at St. Paul and the Redeemer That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane . . . It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of [...]
Dec
07
2009
Sermon preached by Stacy Alan at Bond Chapel, October 28, 2009 Texts: Luke 9 and 11 I was intrigued to learn that these two texts, which I’ve rarely seen engaged together, are not read in the lectionary cycle. Congregations who use the lectionary will not be confronted by these two statements in the same year: [...]
Dec
07
2009
[P]eople like me who love and attend to a personal God, go each day into a world-wide and life-long game of hide-and-seek, in which our Beloved sometimes appears to us as radiant and overwhelming as anyone could wish – in the natural world, in the face of a friend or enemy, in the quiet of the soul, in triumphs of justice and acts of mercy, in art or music – but often masked or hiding – frightening, confusing, maddening, contrary, absent.