Letter from Amy: March 22, 2023
Dear Incarnation, How are the Sunday post-sermon silences going for you? What are you noticing so far? Do you tense up and wait for the...
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Amy Rowe
- Mar 15
Letter from Amy: March 15, 2023
Dear friends, In case you missed last week's letter, I wrote with permission to set down your fasts and lift up your eyes, looking for...
Amy Rowe
- Mar 8
Letter from Amy: March 8, 2023
Dear friends, How is your Lent going? I am loving the changes to our Sunday liturgy . . . the Decalogue (subplot: the sung response was...
Amy Rowe
- Mar 1
Letter from Amy: March 1, 2023
Dear Incarnation, Our vestry warden, Nancy Sung, likes to talk about Sunday "subplots," all those invisible storylines that are woven...
Amy Rowe
- Feb 22
Letter from Amy: Feb 22, 2023
Blessing the Dust For Ash Wednesday All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn your face toward the...
Amy Rowe
- Feb 15
Letter from Amy: Feb 15, 2023
Dear Incarnation, Lent begins a week from today on Ash Wednesday, February 22. The 40-day season of Lent is a time of preparation for...
Amy Rowe
- Feb 8
Letter from Amy: Feb 8, 2023
Dear Incarnation, I've been reading the news out of Turkey and Syria with shock and sorrow. As of this morning, the death toll has...
Amy Rowe
- Feb 1
Letter from Amy: Feb 1, 2023
Dear friends, Last week's letter was light and newsy. This week, I write with grief. I came into the week heavy-hearted over the death of...
Amy Rowe
- Jan 25
Letter from Amy: Jan 25, 2023
Hey Incarnation! Thanks so much for the gift of time away, especially on a Sunday. It has been over a year since my last Sunday away, and...
Amy Rowe
- Jan 18
Letter from Amy: Jan 18, 2023
Dear Incarnation, Thank you for Sunday's post-service birthday surprise! It's always felt meaningful to me to share a birthday with...
Amy Rowe
- Jan 11
Letter from Amy: Jan 11, 2023
Hi all! What a beautiful Sunday! So delightful to welcome Micah to the family of God; to welcome Sarah, Patrick, Elena, Will, Karen,...
Amy Rowe
- Jan 4
Letter from Amy: Jan 4, 2023
Dear Incarnation, Happy 2023! I loved worshiping together on New Year's Day — the caroling deep cuts, the 1600+ year-old homily, the...
Amy Rowe
- Dec 28, 2022
Letter from Amy: Dec 28, 2022
Happy 4th day of Christmas! The 12-day season of Christmas runs from Christmas Day to Epiphany (Jan 6), when we remember the arrival of...
Amy Rowe
- Dec 21, 2022
Letter from Amy: Dec 21, 2022
Dear Incarnation, Today is the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. I'm grateful for the way our Advent traditions help us...
Amy Rowe
- Dec 13, 2022
Letter from Amy: Dec 14, 2022
Dear Incarnation, On Sunday, with fear and trembling, I'll finish our series on the Four Last Things by preaching on hell (listen again...
Amy Rowe
- Dec 7, 2022
Letter from Amy: Dec 7, 2022
Dear Incarnation, This Sunday is the third Sunday in Advent, sometimes called Gaudete Sunday (Gaudete is Latin for "Rejoice"). The candle...
Amy Rowe
- Nov 30, 2022
Letter from Amy: Nov 30, 2022
Advent is here! On Sunday, you might have recognized the strips of purple fabric hanging from the wreaths. Those are the same strips that...
Amy Rowe
- Nov 23, 2022
Letter from Amy: Nov 23, 2022
Dear Incarnation, The locks on the church van were frozen shut on Sunday morning, and we could see our breath as we unloaded. Cold is...
Amy Rowe
- Nov 16, 2022
Letter from Amy: Nov 16, 2022
Dear Incarnation, This Sunday is Christ the King, one of my favorite Sundays of the church year. It's an Incarnation tradition for the...
Amy Rowe
- Nov 9, 2022
Letter from Amy: Nov 9, 2022
Dear Incarnation, The last few years of political upheaval have left us weary and uncertain, and we carried many of those uncertainties...
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