EP Reflections

Life

Death has been swallowed up in victory.Where, O death, is your victory?Where, O death, is your sting? 1 Corinthians 15:54b-55 The Resurrection is real! This Easter weekend, the joy of Christ’s resurrection has lifted my heart in unexpected ways. For Good Friday, I...

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Holy of Holy of Holies

Tell the daughter of Zion,Look, your king is coming to you,humble, and mounted on a donkey,and on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Matthew 21:5 (quoting Zechariah 9.9) When I was in Jerusalem in January, there was frequent mention that the holy seasons of Ramadan,...

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Connections in the Connectional Church

In Christ Jesus the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling-place for God. Ephesians 2:21-22 This last week, I’ve been able to witness the connectional church,...

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News from the Family

I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. Genesis 22:17 Lent is a season when we are reminded of our mortality. Many of us started the season at an Ash Wednesday service where...

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The Laughter of Grace

In your book were writtenall the days that were formed for me,when none of them as yet existed. Psalm 139:16b We are in the middle of the Lenten season. As I have mentioned, there are many different ways to understand and practice Lent, but personally, I tend to use...

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Leaven

Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.” Matthew 13:33 Many people have asked me about my trip to Israel and Palestine, and even asked that I speak...

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Living Stones

Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1...

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Winterfest 2023

“Teach the wise, and they will become wiser;inform the righteous, and their learning will increase.” Proverbs 9:9 (CEB) According to USC Annenberg’s Center for Third Space Thinking, intellectual curiosity is one of five core attributes – along with adaptability,...

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Wendy S. Tajima
Executive Presbyter

Wendy has a creative, spiritual and prophetic way of seeing the world that offers deep insights for practical living. She believes the Church is renewed from the edges, not the center, when those who’ve been marginalized are embraced.