“Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them…” —Matthew 6:1
I spend every Sunday in a different parish. Large or small, urban or suburban or rural, high church or low, evangelical or catholic, formal or informal, enthusiastically charismatic or rather more reserved, “orthodox” or “progressive,” liberal or conservative—they are all Episcopal Churches. They are all scattered across the mountains, valleys, and plains of Colorado. They come in all shapes and sizes, either subtle or not so subtle in variation, and I tell people regularly that I wish that they could see what I see—all the many and various ways in which God’s people are listening to the voice of God, responding to the movement of the Spirit, and seeking to live ever more fully out of that living relationship with the living God that is ours to share. Those visitations are one of the joys of my vocation, and they have made at times for some interesting and unexpected insights....
I spend every Sunday in a different parish. Large or small, urban or suburban or rural, high church or low, evangelical or catholic, formal or informal, enthusiastically charismatic or rather more reserved, “orthodox” or “progressive,” liberal or conservative—they are all Episcopal Churches. They are all scattered across the mountains, valleys, and plains of Colorado. They come in all shapes and sizes, either subtle or not so subtle in variation, and I tell people regularly that I wish that they could see what I see—all the many and various ways in which God’s people are listening to the voice of God, responding to the movement of the Spirit, and seeking to live ever more fully out of that living relationship with the living God that is ours to share. Those visitations are one of the joys of my vocation, and they have made at times for some interesting and unexpected insights....
