CliffNotes

Dear Christ Church, Mark your calendar for a very special event, the installation of our renovated and historic mosaic, followed by a Backyard Party (Sunday evening April 16th). We are delighted that Bishop Todd Hunter will be with us as well to mark the occasion. Many of you lent a hand, making new tiles at

Dear Christ Church, We’ve planned a Lenten Quiet Day for a limited number of parishioners who are hungry for a time of restoration, beauty, and prayer. The location is one of my favorite places in Texas, a hidden treasure just outside of Austin: Shield Ranch. You might remember me talking about this place during our

Dear Christ Church, There are days when our church service feels relatable. We speak a common language, our songs move in familiar patterns. There are other times where the service feels other-worldy. Both of these moments are significant as the shape of our liturgy says something about the God we worship. We worship a God

Dear Christ Church, I slipped alone into a midnight service and looked back as the cross, lifted high, came down the aisle toward me, trailed by a choir. I lost it, in the very best way. Not long after that I found myself attending Ash Wednesday and Holy Week services in a liturgical-sacramental church, unable

Dear Christ Church, What do snails, backyards, trauma, and Lent have to do with each other? Read on (and listen) and you’ll piece it together. With Ash Wednesday only twelve days away it’s time for us to begin preparing to “observe a holy Lent,” as the prayer book puts it. In the weeks to come

Dear Christ Church, If you are like most people who come to Christ Church, you came without an Anglican background. We are very excited to offer The Anglican Way class this spring! Come join us simply to learn more about Anglican worship, history, and practices, or to get ready for confirmation (The Anglican Way class

Today’s guest post was written by the Christ Church Missions Team. Christ Church, We are happy to announce that our annual Guatemala mission trip is back! We have done this trip every year for well over a decade until the pandemic shut it down for a few years, but we’re now making plans to take

Dear Christ Church, After four and a half years of wholeheartedly serving on our Christ Church staff as Director of Children’s Ministry, I’m sad to share that Terrice Tinsley, and her husband Richard, have prayerfully discerned a call from the Lord to new places of ministry. In the next few weeks, the Tinsley’s will be

Dear Christ Church,  Placed in your hand, every Sunday at worship, is bread prepared by one of our volunteer bakers. We “break bread” in this way, together consuming the host from one batch of dough, to express that “there is one body and one Spirit, just as [we] were called to one hope; one Lord,