“What are you looking for?” That is Jesus’s question to his first disciples in John’s Gospel (Jn. 1:38), and that is my question to you, the people of St. John’s: What are you looking for? My focus as curate at St. John’s this year is discipleship — that is, supporting, initiating, and cultivating…
Every year, when we get to this point in autumn—with leaves crunching underfoot and dusk creeping earlier and earlier—I find myself returning to that incredible classic of poetry, T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. In “East Coker”, Eliot dwells particularly on the themes of death and life, an appropriate theme for autumn, as we once again remember…
Hello St. John’s! I am so excited to join you as your curate for the next year through the Reimagining Curacies Program. As you all know, the three of us curates (Mawethu, Philip, and I) spend a year at each parish, and then rotate to our next placement. I’m eager to get to know all…