By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Correspondent Small Episcopal congregations have found a voice in the podcast world. And like a mustard seed, that voice is designed to grow big while heightening appreciation for what’s small. The Small Churches Big Impact podcast debuted in December with a provocative format that lets priests challenge conventional wisdom and dispel myths about … [Read more...] about Podcast Helps Small Congregations Thrive
Archives for March 14, 2022
‘Lykz’ Offers Healing for the Digital Generation
By Retta Blaney Christopher G. Smith and his wife, Alana, stood in front of an empty theater on West 41st Street. Everyone else had gone and soon the marquee would be darkened. Amazing Grace, the musical that Christopher created and nurtured all the way to the Great White Way over a dedicated 17 years, was closing, its Broadway run concluding after only four months. “It … [Read more...] about ‘Lykz’ Offers Healing for the Digital Generation
3 Lent, Year C: Not Consumed
SUNDAY’S READINGS | March 20, 2022 Ex. 3:1-15 Ps. 63:1-8 1 Cor. 10:1-13 Luke 13:1-9 Good news may, at times, come in the form of a warning. Is it not, after all, a good thing to be spared an unnecessary calamity? Reminding us of the tragic fate of the Israelites in the wilderness, St. Paul says, “God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the … [Read more...] about 3 Lent, Year C: Not Consumed
Storing Up Abundance
By Sarah Puryear A Reading from Genesis 41:46-57 46 Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went through all the land of Egypt. 47 During the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly. 48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years when there was plenty in the land … [Read more...] about Storing Up Abundance