Hi church, As I write this, it’s just a few minutes after midnight, and Ash Wednesday is now past. I still haven’t washed the ashes off my forehead, but I’ve smudged them pretty well over the course of the day. (I should probably go to bed.) We’re starting our Lent kind of slowly, since this Sunday is a fourth Sunday and we’re not going to be gathering at Jammin’ Java. However, a bunch of us are planning to go to the Taizé Contemplative Worship with Healing Rite at the Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna at 5pm on Sunday. We’d love... Read more

Dear Church, There is so much to be angry about these days:  politics (of both kinds), the fact that there are only two kinds of politics, traffic, the economy, report cards (giving and receiving), civil wars (and the fuel prices that get blamed on them), joblessness, sleeplessness, poor health, and mattress advertisements featuring dancing ex-Presidents. Even after Common Table’s recent foray into ‘turning the other cheek’, it seems that anger is in the air.  So our Creative Team was inspired to explore this issue of anger– how it works, how it harms us, how it benefits us, and how we can use... Read more