Grace Memorial Episcopal Church - The Rector's Blog

A Passionate Summer

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:09:09 GMT

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?”

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The Last Word

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:01:13 GMT

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.

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The Dance of Grace

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:48:06 GMT

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.

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A Church for the 21st Century

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:23:39 GMT

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?”

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