Glad Tidings

The team is busy working on numerous building and campus improvements while the traffic on campus is low. Members are inspecting water heaters and bathrooms, organizing storage closets, and completing small plumbing, brick, and drywall repairs in the church buildings. The campus grounds are also getting attention with new planting projects on the south bank […]

Communication in a relationship begins with the desire to be known more completely by your partner. We want to learn how to communicate more effectively and lovingly. We have explored listening as a part of our communication in the last blog. Now let us look at speaking or talking skills. Speaking involves self-awareness. To communicate,

“Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love.” So begins the fifth and most well-known of poems in a “little book” by Gaius Valerius Catullus, a 1st century BCE Roman poet. The poet goes on to urge his pseudonymous beloved to throw caution to the wind because “when the short light sets once and

   Church changes over time. Without getting into Process Theology, we know from experience in The Episcopal Church that our liturgies change (e.g. the 1979 Book of Common Prayer vis-à-vis the 1928). Besides the use of modern instead of Elizabethan English, the Holy Eucharist largely replaced Morning Prayer as the standard form of worship on

Your Finance Team’s responsibility is to develop the yearly budget for Nativity, and then to monitor the church’s monthly income and expenses to track how they meet projected and budgeted levels. During the current challenging time, we have been particularly vigilant to understand the results and trends. Financial results through March had tracked to the

With all in-person services, meetings, and activities canceled until at least mid-May, you would think there wasn’t much the Communications Ministry Team can do. I beg to differ.  Here are some of our activities this month: Live Streaming We are continuing to live-stream services via our Facebook page. So far, the Sunday services are going

Listening is an important communication skill that can create and preserve intimacy. When you really listen, you can understand your partner better. You stay in tune, enjoy the relationship more, without having to attempt to mind read what your partner is thinking or feeling. Listening is a means of resolving a personal dilemma, a couple

For the past few years, we’ve been live streaming Evening Prayer on our Facebook page each Wednesday during Lent. This year, since we are unable to worship in person, we thought it would be helpful to continue this practice even now that Lent is over and we are in the season of Easter. I hope

“Have you ever thought about joining EfM?”  It was fellowship hour after church, and Carl Sigel and I were chatting in Corlett Hall. I responded “I’m not familiar with it. What is EfM?”  I don’t remember Carl’s exact words after that, but I left the conversation with my interest piqued. Piqued enough to find myself

I think we could all use the good news preached by Bishop Curry this week. Here is a list of places you can find him for the next few days. Note, all of these were filmed here in Raleigh. Bishop Curry is modeling the good social distancing that he has been encouraging all Episcopalians to