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Rector's Blog: More Than You Can Bear
posted on Sep 9, 2021 This blog is also available as a podcast
The phrase "God will never give you any more than you can handle" is a particularly nasty bit of bad theology that has infiltrated our lives and made them measurably worse . The problem is...
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Rector's Blog: Uncurated Love
posted on Aug 31, 2021 This blog is also available as a podcast
I remember watching TV when I was a kid and waiting for those commercial breaks. This was when you got a refill of your drink, or grabbed a snack or, in the most dire of situations, went to the bath...
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Rector's Blog: God of Transformation
posted on Aug 27, 2021 The blog is also available as a podcast .
One day God changed Abram and Sarai's names to Abraham and Sarah. While this moment may have been coming for a long time, and while in retrospect, it may seem obvious to us why that name change happ...
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Family Ministry
Family Ministry Survey
posted on Aug 19, 2021 Church of the Redeemer's Family Ministry Team values your input as we reimagine worship together with a new schedule for this fall! We are committed to providing an inclusive worship experience as well as age-appropriate programs for the developm...
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Rector's Blog: A New Sunday
posted on Aug 13, 2021 This blog post is also available as a podcast.
Beginning on September 12th, we will be offering a new Sunday worship schedule, and we will be returning to our full array of four worship services: Rite I Eucharist, Rite II Eucharist, The Ba...
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Family Ministry
Family Ministry Gatherings
posted on Aug 12, 2021 Church of the Redeemer's Family Ministry believes the health and safety of your family is a priority, especially during these difficult times of ever changing local health conditions. Thus, due to the uncertainty surrounding schools starting amid...
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Music
Liz Clemons Leaves Role of Assisting Music Minister
posted on Aug 12, 2021 At the beginning of the 2019 program year, we enlisted parishioner Liz Clemons as Assisting Music Minister overseeing the Banquet music with the mutual agreement that we would periodically assess how things have gone and what direction we’d...
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Rector's Blog: Meant for These Times
posted on Aug 5, 2021 This blog is also available as a podcast.
My favorite Beach Boys album, Pet Sounds , includes a song where Brian Wilson opines repeatedly, "I guess I just wasn't made for these times." It's a reflection on feeling disconnected, misunde...
Read MoreRestructuring Our Staff
posted on Jul 28, 2021 A message from our Rector, the Rev. Philip DeVaul July 29, 2021:
Last week, I wrote to you about how the pandemic has created a time for reflection about the way we order our lives, and the way we move forward. As I mentioned, this is not just...
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Rector's Blog Summer Throwback Series: No Such Thing as Secular
posted on Jul 28, 2021 This blog is also available as a podcast .
Editor's note: As part of our When Love Shows Up Summer Throwback Series we are re-posting this blog post which was originally posted on August 5, 2020.
Every time I preach or write about th...
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