This month's Spiritual Connections is from our General Presbyter, the Rev. Shannan Vance-Ocampo: As we prepare for the last Sunday in Advent we hear the familiar words of the Magnificat of Mary from Luke’s Gospel: “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in...

This month's Spiritual Connections is from our General Presbyter, the Rev. Shannan Vance-Ocampo: On Thursday night of this past week, we were awakened at 3AM by the sounds of our dog crying. Earlier in the night we had to put the “cone of shame” around her neck to...

This month's Spiritual Connections is from our General Presbyter, the Rev. Shannan Vance-Ocampo: Earlier this year my doctor told me to read a book on Burnout. She’s a little bit younger than me, has a two-year old at home, a medical practice, and oh yes, that other...

This month's Spiritual Connections is from our General Presbyter, the Rev. Shannan Vance-Ocampo: The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.”...

This month's Spiritual Connections is from our General Presbyter, the Rev. Shannan Vance-Ocampo: As I write this, I am sitting in a house in (very) rural Selmer, Tennessee. I am here with my Doctor of Ministry Cohort, for our first in-person gathering. Yesterday I got...

You’ve no doubt heard all about the cicada emergence going on in a large swath of the country this year. Cicadas are prevalent on an annual basis, but there are some types that only come out in periodic intervals, 13 or 17 years. And only 15 of these periodic broods...

There has been a lot of commentary leading up to Lent that the last year has felt like Lent, when we have had to give up many things, put beloved traditions away for a season, and to trust deeply that the God of love and resurrection will see us through to whatever is...