Sunday morning at The Episcopal Church....

Today was "Mothering Sunday" in Great Britain, and to some extent it was here as well. Anne Borchert provided the Simnel Cake, and I'm certain will share the recipe. It was quite popular! (Read more about Mothering Sunday by following this link: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday.) Meanwhile, the Sunday school "bell choir" is rehearsing for the Easter Sunday service. Can't wait for that one!

Tonight at our Lenten family potluck, we talked about the Bible and how it can be (has been) used as a weapon to be aimed at persons who are different. Great food, incidentally, including spinach-stuffed filet of sole, cornbread-topped bean casserole, twice-baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, asparagus, ginger cake, and strawberry shortcake. Next week's our lest of this series. Topics, from 10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You But Can't Because He Needs the Job, will be "Death and beyond" and "How it all ends."

I'll be off to California this week for two days with some well known Biblical scholars, including Marcus Borg, Karen Armstrong, and Jack Spong. Use Google to find out more about them if you're interested. I'll be spending Friday with granddaughter Amelia (and her mom and dad). Back Saturday.

Joe and Susan Jurkovic provided flowers today. Barbara Carroll hosted coffee hour with home-baked cornbread, crumb cake, and sweet potato bread.

New members of the parish, 10-year-old Cameron and 15-year-old Felicia, have jumped in with both feet! Cameron's assisting at the altar. Felicia's doing a great job of helping with the Sunday school.

Check out a few photos from this morning: