Harvest December 2024

St. James, Wichita parishioners Danny and Celia Blair worked with Saint Francis Ministries about 10 years ago to adopt their grandson, Eoin (pronounced “Ian”). Now nearing their 70s, the couple shared their experience of raising a young boy in retirement. “We were in our late 50s when our youngest daughter got pregnant,” said Celia. “She …

According to Robert Capon, Episcopal theologian and New York Times food critic, “the main job of the theologian is to make God interesting.” Of course, this work is not the exclusive domain of the intellectually gifted. Nor is it the sphere of the academically well-credentialed. The theologian’s task of “making God interesting” is about the …

About two years ago, I was invited to join the Commission for College and Young Adult Ministry (formerly known as Campus Ministry) within the Diocese of West Missouri. We were discussing what we could do to support college students and young adults since we didn’t have traditional campus ministries like our neighboring dioceses in Kansas …

Have you ever experienced synergy?  When you get together with others who are like you but also different, and yet you share a common purpose?  I hope so! I certainly feel this way when we worship together on Sundays.  Recently, I experienced synergy on a large scale, at the annual combined meeting of the Society of Biblical …

The season of Advent begins the celebration of the Incarnation of Christ that continues through the season of Epiphany with the culmination at the Transfiguration of Jesus on the mountain with Moses, Elijah, and the Disciples gazing in disbelief. Advent is a path for our hearts to open again to the complete gift of incarnation. …