Confessions of Your Senior Warden

Confessions of Your Senior Warden

by | Oct 17, 2018 | Uncategorized

We were out in God’s creation on a spectacularly beautiful day, hiking Cadillac Mountain in Maine. The weather was cool and crisp. We could see all the boats below in Bar Harbor. It was the kind of day that made me never want to live anyplace else besides New England....
Big Week Ahead!

Big Week Ahead!

by | Oct 10, 2018 | Uncategorized

Dear Christ the Redeemer family, This is an exciting autumn for us, and I would like to share a little about what is happening, particularly this upcoming week. This Sunday Bishop Bill will be visiting us for the last time before his retirement. We will rejoice as...

Heaven is Not Here… Yet

by | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized

It may be the most popular gospel song ever recorded: “I’ll fly away, O, Glory. In the morning, when I die, hallelujah, by and by, I’ll fly away.” The context of that song is important. It was written by someone who knew what it meant to be picking cotton in the hot...

Coping with Change

by | Sep 12, 2018 | Uncategorized

Over 30 years ago we were at an Inn in New Hampshire with a group of people who were deciding if this would be a good property for us to purchase and undertake as a retreat center. There were many issues to be dealt with and we were not all on the same page regarding...

Seeing Through a Brick Wall in Time

by | Aug 29, 2018 | Uncategorized

There is a moment in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings when Frodo Baggins calls the innkeeper of The Prancing Pony, Barliman Butterbur, stupid. Butterbur forgot to deliver a crucial message at a crucial moment, costing the party much time and danger, and the...