The Rector's Blog
A Passionate Summer
July 7, 2010 by Stephen Schneider
In her wonderfully engaging book, Jesus Freak, Sara Miles, the Director of the Food Pantry at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco, writes about Paul, her priest colleague:
“. . . Paul . . .understood how to wake up people steeped in the habits of church, who found it impossible to believe that they had the power Jesus breathed on them. His practice began with asking questions: What do you want? What do you love doing?”
The Last Word
November 15, 2009 by Stephen Schneider
Dear People of Grace,
As a child growing up in the church I was fascinated by that word Amen. Amen I learned was a word that appears in both the Hebrew and the Christian scriptures. In our family it was also a word that came at the end of our prayers at the dinner table.
The Dance of Grace
October 21, 2009 by Stephen Schneider
What’s in a name?
One hundred years ago, our visionary foundress, Angeline Berry helped us to find our name, Grace. Grace Memorial to be more precise, but often just Grace will suffice.
In: Grace
A Church for the 21st Century
June 17, 2009 by Stephen Schneider
When I invited our Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, to speak to us at Grace as part of our Centennial, I left her with the question: “What does it mean to be a church for the 21st century?”
In: Church
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This blog is written periodically by the Rev. Stephen Schneider, the Rector of Grace.