Posted on Wed 14 May 2025 in Theology
Back in 2011, the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire had an Evangelism Toolkit for churches to use. This toolkit came in two parts:
Posted on Sun 11 May 2025 in Theology
I. Why come to church? Why take time to come here and worship God together? Couldn’t we experience God at home or on a hike? After all, God is everywhere and in those places too.
Maybe you came for the breakfast, but Sawyer’s has breakfast, too. Maybe you …
Posted on Thu 01 May 2025 in Worship
I offered this closing prayer at today's May Day rally in Concord, based on the Lord's prayer. See coverage of the event on InDepthNH.
Good and gracious God,
deliver us from the evil
of rejecting the divine image in which we are created
of rejecting that dignity, value and infinite …
Posted on Wed 30 April 2025 in Theology
Back in March, Pastor Jon Hopkins and I were interviewed by Jesse Gillis of NH Peace Action about Christian Zionism. We covered a lot of topics, including the history of Christian Zionism and its roots a dispensational eschatology, a theology coming from a specific strand of American fundamentalism. We talked …
Posted on Fri 25 April 2025 in Worship
On Palm Sunday, we sang a hymn new to our parish. This is "By Gracious Powers" and it is a musical arrangement of a poem by Dietrich Bonhoffer. He wrote this poem in a Nazi prison cell where his resistance cost him his life 80 years ago on April 9 …