The season of Lent is a time to craft a few extra moments for prayer and reflection. Here are a few materials to help you with that. Who is My Neighbor? This Lenten Season, Episcopal Relief & Development invites you to join us as we meditate on the commandment to love our neighbor and consider […]
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From the Clergy, UncategorizedEpisco101: What you need to know about the Episcopal Church (but maybe didn’t know where to ask) This Lent, you are invited to bring your questions about being an Episcopalian, and the clergy are going to do their best to answer. Perhaps you have questions like… There will be a wooden box in the Narthex
I have been a chaplain with the Veterans Health Administration (VA) for ten years. I’m not a veteran myself, but I have friends and family members who have served and are serving in various branches of the military. In my time at the VA — first as a trainee and now as a board certified
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Uncategorized, Veterans
Over the season of Lent, we will be exploring the parables through the experiences of those on the margins. On Monday evenings throughout Lent (February 27–April 3) we will be reading and discussing Hearts Ablaze: Parables for the Queer Soul by Rolf R. Nolasco Jr. You are invited to join us each week on Zoom
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UncategorizedIn 2021, Nativity partnered with nine other Raleigh congregations in a program to support our local Black farmers. The program, called Farm to Church Community Supported Agriculture or CSA, was launched by the Rural Advancement Foundation International -USA (RAFI-USA). CSAs have become a popular way for consumers (CSA members) to buy local, seasonal food directly
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Outreach, Social Justice, UncategorizedWe have several opportunities through Habitat’s Faith Builder group to build a house, offer advocacy, and educate ourselves as we join with Habitat to help build the Beloved Community for racial equity. EpiscoBuild Begins Nativity will be joining the other Episcopal churches to build a house for Habitat for Humanity. We will start building our
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Outreach, Social Justice, Uncategorized
by Heather Dean Brewer, author; and LeUyen Pham, illustratorreview by Anne Stokes Heather Dean Brewer is a writer, artist, and art director who designs books for kids and adults and loves to ride her bike in the woods. About this book she says, “I’ve often felt quiet and small and that no one could hear
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Peace Library Reviews, Social Justice
When you are sitting in the pews of the Church of the Nativity, you might be asked to turn to a page of the Book of Common Prayer. And when you pull the book out of the book holder and open the book, you notice that the pages are yellow in a certain section of
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This Epiphany, we have reintroduced the appointed psalm into our Sunday lectionary readings. A wonderful tradition of the Anglican heritage is that of Anglican Chant, which is the practice of chanting the psalms. In contrast to Gregorian Chant (which is what most people think of when they think of “chant”), Anglican Chant feels a little
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Glad Tidings
Creation Care webinar: The Pentagon, Climate Change and WarA Zoom Forum on January 17 at 12 noonCarl Sigel As people of faith, we glimpse the peace of heaven and seek a new world of peace here on earth. Please join Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle and other sponsors for this Zoom forum with Neta
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Caring for Creation