Sometimes people think Mary is the highest example of faith because she was able to truly believe things that are practically unbelievable.
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Leaning In
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What does it mean to lean into the unprovable story of the resurrection and Jesus and faith?
Read MoreGetting on the Bus
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This week has not gone at all like I expected. I suppose a priest getting sick with covid would be worst during Holy Week, but Christmas is a close second.
Read MoreMost to be pitied
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As pitiable as it may be, we are all just regular people who really long for the kind of predictability and comfort that we think will bring us an abundant life.
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Confidence
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Jeremiah felt he was just too young. Isaiah said that he had unclean lips. Moses told God that he was too slow of speech to be a prophet. Amos felt that as an arborist, being a prophet was way beyond his pay grade. What would be your biggest concern?
Read MoreGod's Commandments
/The annoying aunt. The loudly partying neighbor. The disrespectful teenager. The crooked politician. These neighbors are often downright hard to love - just how are you supposed to do that?
Read MoreProtection
/I hardly want to open the paper just lately, with all the fires and droughts and floods and variants and attacks on voting rights, etc. If I had my way, these things would not happen. I suspect you would make changes in the world, too, if it were in your power to do so. But it’s not.
Read MoreInterruptions
/Reading this Sunday’s gospel, it strikes me that Jesus’ usual day was much like a new mom’s day - constantly interrupted by unexpected needs.
Read MoreBaby Steps
/Well, if you’d told me a mere year and a half ago that the entire world would soon struggle with a pandemic that would kill millions of people, interrupt the world economy, disrupt our community and close our church building, and that we would worship on an online meeting platform called Zoom for over a year, well, I wouldn’t have believed you.
Read MoreGrowth in the Dark
/Throughout history, whenever tragedy strikes, people turn to their faith. The pandemic has been no different.
Read MoreWritten on our hearts
/We read a lot of Jeremiah during Lent, and frankly it’s no picnic.
Read MoreBeloved Remembrance
/I hope you will take a moment to share the names of those through whom God’s love has shined brightly for you.
Read MoreWaiting and Trusting
/Here in October of 2020, we are collectively grieving.
Read MoreNew Potatoes
/I had a dream this week
Read MorePowerlessness
/Despite quarantines, sold-out face masks and gallons of hand sanitizer, sometimes something as tiny as a virus can still get the better of us.
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