Twenty-five years ago this month, I was sitting on a rock in the middle of a river in Yosemite with three other first-year Seminary classmates. We were visiting the park … Read More
We live in a time of outrage, resistance and protest; of uncovering what is wrong and speaking truth to power. Every news cycle contains new revelations of sexual misconduct and … Read More
If you’ve been dipping into church this summer in between weekends away and other commitments, you’ve heard me preaching a lot out of the OT books of Samuel, which recount … Read More
2 Samuel 7:1-14a Psalm 89:20-37 Ephesians 2:11-22 Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
Jesus went home for a visit and it didn’t go so well. He brought his loyal followers with him to meet his family, friends and fellow Nazarenes. He went to … Read More
+In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. These past couple of weeks I have seen a few storms pass through my … Read More
For most of my adult life I have been a renter. It wasn’t until Bryon and I married 10 years ago that I first owned a home. I once calculated … Read More
How can we know God? After all no one has ever seen God. How are we to understand the Scripture? The words are from another time and a culture that … Read More
Second Sunday of Easter Acts 4:32-35 1 John 1:1-2:2 John 20:19-31 Psalm 133