A new thing is coming soon and you are invited to mark the occasion with city officials, community partners, and the neighborhood. Refreshments will be provided.… Read More
The Good Shepherd The first time I served as the clergy with cure, in other words, the clergy with charge for the care of a congregation, was in Northern Nevada. … Read More
Most of us are wounded. Most of us hide our wounds. We carry around our shame, grief and blame secretly. When we feel wronged and are suffering from an injustice we are like the psalmist who cries out, “How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies?”… Read More
How then, do we heal? What do we do with the wounds? In our Eucharistic Prayer C we proclaim together, “By his wounds, we are healed.” Jesus appeared to the disciples in the Upper Room with his wounds saying, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” God has sent Jesus to them—to us—with his wounds in the ongoingness of life after trauma and death.… Read More
Can we, with the women, hear the voice of the messenger who simply proclaims, “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised.”… Read More
All of which brings me to the book of Numbers, fourth book in the Old Testament, not your typical Bible hotspot. Now we’re here with serpents in the wilderness and being bitten, people dying, in an exodus from slavery. We are present in the company of Moses: “So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it on a pole, and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.” What an amazing story. Where did that come from?… Read More
An Invitation for St. Luke’s members and friends to walk on “Sacred Ground” April 10 – June 19 Sacred Ground is a film- and readings-based dialogue series on race, grounded … Read More