Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

03/20/2022

Many were drawn to attending services with the National Cathedral online during the pandemic...and still are.

[Religion News Service] Over the course of the past two years, the preachers of Washington National Cathedral have addressed the grief, loneliness and other trials of the COVID-19 pandemic through …

03/20/2022

https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2022/03/17/absalom-jones-centers-women-of-distinction-honorees-bring-grace-grit-to-the-church/

    [Episcopal News Service] For the Rev. Nancy Frausto’s students at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin a trip to the Texas-Mexico border is a standard part of the curriculum. “We g…

02/22/2022

Check out the videos embedded in the article for images, voices and greater understanding.

[Episcopal News Service] Maine Episcopalians are supporting the efforts of the state’s Native tribes to exercise the sovereign powers that enable tribes in other states to largely regulate their ow…

02/21/2022

A truly great man -- and now a loss for this world. Paul Farmer died at age 62 in his sleep in Rwanda.

"But the people who make grand pronouncements about what is or isn’t cost-effective, feasible, sustainable, reasonable — it’s not that they think that some people are worth less than others. And they’d be horrified to be called racist or sexist. So what is it, if it’s not really that? I think it’s more often socialization for scarcity on behalf of other people.

"This is something I’ve been struggling with since I was a student: socialization for scarcity. But scarcity for ourselves? No. Scarcity for our mom? No. For our own kids? No. We’re socialized for scarcity for other people, and they’re usually black or brown or poor. So then we start cutting corners. Like saying we can treat drug-susceptible tuberculosis but not drug-resistant tuberculosis. We can give vaccines in Liberia but not chemotherapy. We must focus on prevention of trauma, or AIDS, in such settings, but not treatment. It might sound OK in a classroom, but such logic is lethal on the ground."

"To be horrified by inequality and early death and not have any kind of plan for responding — that would not work for me."

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/05/harvards-paul-farmer-on-traveling-the-world-to-fight-inequality-in-health/?fbclid=IwAR3Q3jbo5XZN0kw1OYeiUutkID-epcClXcHF3kk3vJE_HoxlQhSaY6HU1g8

In the Experience series, Paul Farmer talks Partners In Health, "Harvard-Haiti," and making the lives of the poor the fight of his life.

02/20/2022

It's not uncommon to look up when you're in Grace Cathedral. But what is uncommon is seeing something a 70-foot pendulum swinging from the pews to the pulpit when you do. It's all part of a new performance installation called "Love, A State of Grace."

02/20/2022

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/core-memory-weavers-navajo-apollo-raytheon-computer-nasa?fbclid=IwAR0xr4KxVBVRU5ho1rNqsajgh_lDtFHkVeCFfylzURnDIkI92yrdl2HIaGs

The stories of the women who assembled integrated circuits and wove core memory for the Apollo missions remain largely unknown.

02/17/2022

Weekend opportunity! Godspell -- a production to benefit The Street Chaplaincy in Marin County. Directed by Nativity, San Rafael member, Kim Bromley.

"WHAT WE DO: We bring compassionate spiritual care to unsheltered persons and build bridges of support that foster community between the housed and those living on the street."

02/07/2022

Consider your congregation: What are the plans for continuing online church as "the Church reopens"? Where are the conversations taking place and with whom? How has the pandemic changed our views of inclusion, access, membership, community, participation, and communion? What do we continue to learn about "the Body of Christ"?https://religionnews.com/2022/02/02/quitting-online-church-is-abandoning-the-one-for-the-99/?fbclid=IwAR3LRbVD7z9EVLIfHQ3XNJLmu2QNcp_BetQ6shFZuahdvp5csaXoBuSA81M

(RNS) — With online church, disabled people — including me and my family — were welcomed to church in more ways and more often than ever before. Let’s keep that up.

02/07/2022

We continue to listen to Native Voices. https://fb.watch/b0ZebWsevB/