Weekly Newsletter Orthodox icon, likely in mural form, 21st century A Note from Rev'd Ben Dear St. George's, As a child, I was very concerned with fairness. What this really meant is that I wanted to make sure that my sisters weren’t getting a better deal than me, that I was getting my fair share. If you have siblings – or have parented siblings – this might be a familiar concern. But our Gospel reading for this Sunday reminds us that God doesn’t work by making sure that everyone gets theirs,...

Weekly Newsletter A Note from Rev'd John Dear St. George's, We have no shortage of choices. Walk down almost any supermarket aisle and the possibilities can seem endless: dozens of kinds of coffee, toothpaste, cereal, or detergent. Yet these are hardly the choices by which a life is measured. This Sunday, Paul places before us a much more consequential choice. “Let us then lay aside the works of darkness,” he writes, “and put on the armour of light.” We are called consciously to “live...

Weekly Newsletter Annette Gandy Fortt A Note from Rev'd Ben Dear St. George's, Our Old Testament reading this Sunday is one of the most dramatic in the Bible: Moses is out tending his flock when he meets...God! God speaks to Moses out of a burning bush, telling him that his life is about to change forever. For God has chosen Moses to be God's instrument to deliver his people from bondage in Egypt and bring them to the land God promised to Abraham so long ago. We might not have the same sort...