By Chip Prehn
Cooking can be something of an inconvenience during the busiest times of the ecclesiastical year. For lay leaders and parish clergy, the...
By E.S. Kempson
Hospitality is not what it used to be. Because of COVID the hospitality industry has suffered, meeting friends or family is discouraged...
By keeping the love of our neighbor and working toward shalom in our communities at the forefront of everything we do, we can engage in these conversations with a love and humility that will then lead to the mutual thriving of those in our communities and extend outwards to the world around us.
Hospitality does not mean inviting people into the most sacramentally intimate spaces of the Christian life, it means being honest about intentions, healthy boundaries, the shape and form such commitments will take, and yes, eventually, the intimate sharing of one body with another. If consent is important in our debates about sexual boundaries, how is it also not important for sacramental boundaries?
The EYC at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Lafayette, LA hosted its annual Mardi Gras Ball for the Down Syndrome Association of Acadiana on February 17.