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Diocese Seeks Finance Administrator

September 15, 2023

Position Overview: The Financial Administrator works as part of a small team in the offices of the Diocese of Tennessee. With the other members of Diocesan staff, the Financial Administrator uses their skills to facilitate and support the […]

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Funeral of Theodore Osborne, St. George’s Church, Nashville, July 1, 2023

July 05, 2023

“This is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day” (Jo. 6:39). Today, thank God for the liturgy, and […]

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Proper 5, Year A, Church of the Messiah, Pulaski, June 11, 2023

June 11, 2023

“For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners” (Matt. 9:13). Jesus knows his target audience. He’s not looking for people who have it all together: that’s a good thing, because there aren’t many people in […]

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Trinity Sunday, Year A, Trinity Parish, Clarksville, June 4, 2023

June 06, 2023

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20). […]

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The Feast of Pentecost, or Whitsunday, Year A, Church of the Resurrection, Franklin, May 28, 2023

May 28, 2023

“And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting” (Acts 2:2). Biblical life begins with a breath: that is, all creation begins […]

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The Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A, St. Paul’s Church, Franklin, May 21, 2023

May 22, 2023

“Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you…” (Jo. 17:1). If you want to be a TikTok influencer, your fame has to spread. You have to catch the eye, and capture […]

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The Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A, St. George’s Church, Nashville, May 14, 2023

May 16, 2023

“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth…” (Jo. 14:16-17). In our Gospel today, Jesus promises the disciples that he will send […]

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The Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A, St. Paul’s Church, Murfreesboro, May 7, 2023

May 08, 2023

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (Jo. 14:6). The other day one of our parishioners in the diocese asked me where I usually was on […]

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The Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A, Church of the Good Shepherd, Brentwood, April 30, 2023

April 30, 2023

“He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out” (Jo. 10:3). One of the earliest images of Jesus found in the catacombs of Rome is a drawing of a young, beardless shepherd in the midst of […]

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Dubose Conference Center, Monteagle, Anniversary of Dedication, April 29, 2023

April 29, 2023

“Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house which I have built” (1 Kgs 8:27). When the Episcopal Church in Tennessee, after the Second World War, purchased what is now the Dubose […]

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The Third Sunday of Easter, Year A, St. Bartholomew’s Church, Nashville, April 23, 2023

April 23, 2023

“Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him” (Lk. 24:31). It’s amazing how a familiar gesture, or an intonation of voice, or even a characteristic phrase, can bring someone back to mind. The gesture or phrase is […]

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Funeral of the Rev’d Peter Whalen, St. Philip’s Church, Donelson, April 22, 2023

April 22, 2023

“I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me” (Jo. 6:38). Every celebration of the Eucharist is a commemoration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, […]

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At Baptism, St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School, Sewanee, April 19, 2023

April 20, 2023

“So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17). Easter is a time for new beginnings. During this season, nature itself conspires with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, to lay out before us […]

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The Second Sunday of Easter, Year A, St. Mark and St. Paul’s Church, Sewanee, April 16, 2023

April 16, 2023

“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe” (Jo. 20:29). Our Gospel reading today is a story of faith, though some may be diverted down another path by “doubting Thomas” and his refusal […]

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Saturday in Easter Week, DOK Spring Assembly, St. Peter’s Church, Columbia, April 15, 2023

April 15, 2023

“And they went out and proclaimed the good news everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it” (Mk. 16:20). Easter isn’t a day, it’s a season: one that goes […]

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The Easter Vigil, Year A, Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville, April 8, 2023

April 09, 2023

“We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him” (Rom. 6:9). There are times when the future arrives suddenly: an inflection point when the face of things […]

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