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It has taken me the better part of my life to figure out that the Christian Life is a life lived in community. It is community. You may...

6 Epiphany 16 Feb 2020 I just had the opportunity to spend a week in Baja California. When I signed up for the trip it was in my mind a...

Feast of the Presentation 2 Feb 2020 I really like the alternate name for this feast day: Candlemas. In a world that is always upside...

Lent 4C 31 Mar 2019 Wikipedia, for whatever amount of trust you have in it, lists 156 movies about con artists. I looked at the list and...

Lent 3C 24 Mar 2019 I wonder how many people saw that burning bush and walked right on by. It must have been something to take your...

2 Lent, Year C 17 Mar 2019 Love what God loves. What if we reduced all the catechisms to this one phrase/command? Ah, but who gets to...

1C Lent 10 Mar 2019 When I was about 7 or 8 years old my father worked the night shift at the Post Office and my mother worked a day job....

Transfiguration 3 Mar 2019 Maybe the blinding snowstorm of last weekend comes as close to the transfiguration as anything I can imagine....

7 Epiphany 24 Feb 2019 I am really a bit tired of Jesus at this point. I have been following him around Galilee (and am tired of going...

6 Epiphany 17 Feb 2019 I am not sure I can believe Jesus what Jesus says in Luke, as much as I would like to so do. It has been 2000...

5 Epiphany, Year C 10 Feb 2019 I know exactly what it is like to fish for hours and not catch a single fish. I would hazard a guess that...

Weddings never cease to be a problem. When Nan and I were married in August of 2017 I wondered how many people would come, would we have...

Advent 4C 23 Dec 2018 Welcome to the Festival of Fools!! You see the purple hat? I am the court jester today and you are all part of...

3C Advent 16 Dec 2018 We hear today from some pretty heavy hitters: John the Baptizer, Paul, Isaiah, and then….. Zephaniah. But it is...

2 ADVENT, YEAR C 9 DEC 2018 MAKING THE HOUSE READY FOR THE LORD Dear Lord, I have swept and I have washed but still nothing is as...

1 ADVENT, YEAR C 2 DEC 2018 Welcome to the new year. As it is with the other new year, we enter it with a mix of expectation and...

Christ The King 25 November 2018 The year is 1925. The Great War ended seven years earlier (and this fall marked 100 years) but the...

25 Pentecost, Proper 27 11 Nov 2018 England, 1549. The first Book of Common Prayer is published under the direction of Thomas Cramner....

All Saints 4 Nov 2018 About two summers ago I was asked to be one of the clergy participants at the funeral of a friend, a member of St....