Christ Episcopal Church

“All Neat, No Meat”

August 26, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. A few years ago, my refrigerator decided it was time to retire to the old fridge home in the sky.  So, I went looking for a new one, and was I ever in for a surprise. First of all, everything…

“Sleeping With Bread”

July 29, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. I love that line in the gospel today where it said “Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all.” Sounds like a description of Woodstock to me. …

“Living In A Holy Time”

July 22, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” How many of you hear that in the gospel today and just want to say “Yes!”  Please… Jesus, give me that sweet rest.  Of course, for…

“Listen To Women”

[Our guest preacher was Mr. Christopher Dwyer. Christopher is a chorister, co-chair of our Outreach Group, and a seminarian] July 15, 2018: In the name of the one, holy, and living God: Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit. Amen. That Gospel story is a real barn-burner, huh? It’s got everything – sympathetic prisoner of conscience, courtly intrigue,…

In the News!

Mother Diana marched with other clergy and thousands of people on Saturday, June 30th as part of the “Families Belong Together” protest in Newark.  Check out the story here: NewJersey.Com

Day Camp (VBS) – Aug 6-10

Registration is now open for our VBS Day Camp! The dates are August 6-10 (Monday-Friday) from 9am-3pm, and is open to those entering K (or potty-trained)- 6th grade. There will be a kickoff on Sunday August 5th at the 10:30am worship, where you can meet the staff of Crossroads and learn some of the camp…

“Get Up!  We Were Made For Life!”

July 1, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard.  Amen. Lordy!  It’s hot!  You know what Episcopalians do when it’s this hot? We go to Austin Texas for General Convention!  Yup – I kid you not. Anyway, I remember once being in heat far worse than this – back in…

“Love, Riots, & Truthful Speech”

June 24, 2018 – LGBT Sunday: [Today we have as a guest preacher a member of our choir and vestry, Mark Richardson.  Mark is a psychotherapist at Beth Israel Medical Center (Newark), he also maintains a private practice in Montclair, NJ, focused on helping survivors of trauma. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Art, 1983)…

Mtr. Diana In The News!

Check out these two articles – one written by Mtr. Diana, the other on the upcoming General Convention, in which she is quoted: Reclaiming Jesus March by The Rev. Diana Wilcox Deputies Aim To Shape Policy At General Convention by Kirk Petersen