Posts from August 2021
Love Never Ends, August 2021
As our local, state, and national response to the Coronavirus pandemic has shifted from mandates to recommendations, you’ve probably spent time considering how these recommendations, options, and suggestions apply to you. While the application of recommendations can be perplexing–frustrating, even–Jesus’s mandate to us remains the same: love one another, and through your love people will know that we are his disciples. In practical terms, that means that Christians interpret recommendations, options, and suggestions through Jesus’s command to love. Christian charity…
Pastoral Letter: More Deeply Rooted
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,whose confidence is in him.They will be like a tree planted by the waterthat sends out its roots by the stream.It does not fear when heat comes;its leaves are always green.It has no worries in a year of droughtand never fails to bear fruit.” – Jer. 17:7-8 Dear Church of the Redeemer, Through the regular rhythm of gathering and being sent out in worship, the Lord builds up His church in…
Important Matter Affecting Our Diocesan Churches
Dear Church of the Redeemer, On Saturday evening, the Bishop’s Council informed the Diocese of allegations of serious sexual misconduct and abuse involving former Greenhouse Movement staff member Joel Girard during his time serving on the Cornerstone Anglican Church staff (Chicago, IL). These allegations are unrelated to the investigation into those at Big Rock, IL being overseen by the Province of the Anglican Church in North America. At her invitation, parish and diocesan leaders are working closely with the woman who…