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New year, new us
Happy new school year! Your kids and grandkids are back on the school bus, the ones that are home for the summer are almost certainly...
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- Aug 13
- 2 min
A new school year!
Every new academic year holds a lot of potential -- not simply new teachers and new classes (and maybe even a new school, but also a...
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- Jul 30
- 2 min
Being Discerning
Christ Lutheran, In the Episcopal Church, we have lately been having lots of conversations about discernment: what it is, how to do it,...
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- Jul 25
- 4 min
Hoping anyways
Where does hope come from? Where do you get more hope if you don't have any, or if you don't have enough? How do you maintain hope in the...
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- Jul 1
- 5 min
Pride Service Reflection - Juls
by juls buyaki part of the beauty of being made in god’s image is that i think the existence of queer people reflects on all that god can...
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- Jun 27
- 4 min
Relevant experience: Resurrection
The resurrection is a funny story to be the lynchpin of a religious narrative because it can seem very abstract. How absurd to think and...
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- May 24
- 7 min
When the Church doesn't want you, but Bravo TV does
This is the first Sunday of our early summer Pop Culture sermon series. Did you know that? Well now you know that. When I was thinking...
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- May 19
- 4 min
The dimension that is the spiritual
One thing you may not know about me is that I was an undergraduate physics major, of all things, in my time at William & Mary. I loved...
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- May 5
- 4 min
Friendship makes this harder
Last Saturday evening, about a dozen Mary Wash students were arrested from the UMW campus, charged with trespassing, and taken to the...
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- Apr 18
- 8 min
The Good Shepherd and the Sheep
How many of you have adult children who do not go to church? How many of you have grandchildren who you do not know when/if they will...
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- Apr 12
- 6 min
On joy, disbelief, wonder, and eating
It is a funny thing about being a modern day young adult that I have dear, dear friends who I have never met. Our culture is increasingly...
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- Mar 29
- 3 min
A sermon for Good Friday
The Bible is at the same time 66 different books with authorship that spans centuries and also one continuous story. It spans mythos and...
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- Mar 28
- 5 min
Maundy Thursday sermon
In my last parish where I served as youth minister, our Maundy Thursday service took place downstairs in the parish hall -- we ordered a...
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- Mar 9
- 7 min
Saying Love less
Christ Lutheran, I feel like I have quite an unpopular opinion -- as a pastor -- and the opinion is this: I think we should talk about...
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- Feb 18
- 3 min
The enduring of dissonance
What is it about a baptism that would send Jesus out into the wilderness? What is it about the Spirit that would drive him out into the...
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- Feb 7
- 7 min
Our dingy grayness, yours and mine
It amuses me how human beings are kind of spongy, how we soak up a bit of the context and the people around us. Like how you spend a...
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- Jan 28
- 3 min
IN THE BEGINNING
I love these readings (Genesis 1, John 1, 1 John 1) for an instructed eucharist service because the through line is obvious. In the...
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- Dec 17, 2023
- 4 min
Barbie Dream Creation
Hi Barbie! Today is Gaudete Sunday which means that the official liturgical color is pink. Thank God. Finally, church for girls!!!!!!!...
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- Nov 22, 2023
- 5 min
King Josiah's Sunday school class
A good ten years ago, I took a weeklong intensive leadership course at a seminary, it was a course on community organizing. And the man...
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- Nov 13, 2023
- 2 min
Church is a generations game
I've spent the last eight years of my career working in age-specific ministries in the church: in middle and high school youth ministry,...
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