As we look ahead to a new season of ministry, may we be inspired by Peter's faith, a faith that doubts and stumbles at times but always follows Jesus. May we also hold on to the best of what those early Episcopalians started at Christ Church, and pass it on to those who will come after us.

I do not think the Church’s work of binding and loosing is about clutching and throwing away, either people or empires. I think it is the careful work of unlearning, untethering ourselves and our world from empires and reconnecting our hearts, strand by single strand, with the heart of God.