Vestry election season is upon us. And several important goods are in tension in parish elections. The first is that an effective vestry depends on a diversity of gifts and perspectives. It needs men and women, of various ages and interests, with different areas of expertise and experience. It needs longstanding members and active people who have joined Calvary
Last Monday I decided to buy a bike rack for our car on Facebook Marketplace. If you’re not familiar with this corner of the social media universe, imagine Amazon taking over the classified section in your hometown newspaper. Got it?
Well, I found a three-bike hitch-mount Yakima rack for $105 plus shipping. Not
by the Ven. Mimsy Jones
As another school year gets underway, I am remembering teachers who formed as well as informed me, beginning with my eleventh grade English teacher whose name was Miss McGing but was known to us students as the Holy Terror.
Short and stocky, with the zeal of a prize-fighter, Miss McGing taught English with a fiery passion.
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the events now forever known simply as 9/11. Anyone, who is at least thirty years old, remembers where he/she was that day. Living in San Francisco and an inveterate early riser even then, I was just waking as a friend called to say, “Have you turned on the television?”
Here’s the way it happened. True story. We were carrying 2x4s and buckets of nails and scraps of tin down a zig-zagging path into a ravine in Pokot country far out in the Kenyan bush. The plan was to extend a dam to capture more rainwater, which would help both people and livestock
I am pleased to announce that the Reverend Katherine Bush has accepted a call to serve as associate rector at Calvary. Her first Sunday will be Oct. 24. At the end of a five-month national search process, one which actually resulted in applicants from as far away as Pakistan, the priest
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
“The Tables Turned” by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Near the house where I stay in Maine, there is a tree-lined dirt road that winds up, down, and around the bay below. The road is barely wide enough for two oncoming cars to scoot past each
Had you been walking down West Third Street in Dayton, Ohio in the late 1800s, the shouts and curses spilling from the upper floor of a bicycle shop may have stopped you in your tracks. Two brothers worked in the space, and, as you may know, there are siblings who have learned to
This is a trip like no other. In addition to simply being able to travel again to see some wonderful sights in England, the experience that touches your innermost being is the participation in the regular rhythm of sung services. The Calvary Choir will carry on the tradition of sung services perpetuated
Buddy Stallings would be the first to tell you that he came to know Calvary through his late and beloved husband, Molitor Ford. But he came to love Calvary for himself enough to serve as interim rector in 2016-2017 after retiring as rector of St Bart’s Church in New York. I’m so pleased to announce that Buddy cannot quite,