Author Archives: Fr. Chuck Collins

One of the diocesan mandates for a rector search process is that the vestry take time to reexamine its Mission Statement and Core Values. Over the past six months our…

I’d just like to say out loud what everyone is thinking: our new rector will not be Newt Hayes.* Now it’s said! We can breathe deeply and prepare to receive a…

I am guilty of saying more than a hundred times, “Let’s wait until the new rector comes.” Discretion in some matters, of course, is called for. It would be a…

Outstretched arms extended farther than joints allow he cried to heaven and earth pulling them together in one giant moment one cross raised higher for every deep hope of human…