That’s kind of how life in the Spirit feels to me. Sometimes you’re flowing with a creative power and presence as it takes you in fresh directions and other times, your little boat is overwhelmed and you’ve capsized into deep water. The Spirit has the power to heal and the power to bring us to our knees.… Read More
Easter 7 Every year at this time one of my parishioners used to remind me that Mother’s Day was nearly impossible for him. He had been abused horribly by his … Read More
When my colleague and I traveled out to Flint, we had already read some of the horrific stories of people getting sick and dying, of city and state government officials maligning the residents, and of the history of the river itself contaminated in many different ways. What we encountered when we went there was a community that acted out of their understanding of the gospel to love and serve the world. … 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
Too often it seems like we are living in the “in between” times. We can’t go back to the way things were, yet we live in both hope and fear … Read More
Christmas Eve Service, 7 pm in the St. Luke’s Chapel It is both a joy and a privilege to be with you in this special chapel on this holy night. … Read More