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Give it 80% this year
Among the many practices of Ignatian spirituality, is the practice of using one's imagination to place oneself in a story of scripture so...
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- Aug 22
- 2 min
New students move in tomorrow!
I preached a sermon a few weeks ago at Trinity Episcopal Church about how all summer long I felt like Jesus on the mountain by himself --...
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- Aug 10
- 5 min
Welcome is an act of faith
In our Gospel reading last week, Jesus headed off for some introvert time, he literally got into a boat and paddled out in the middle of...
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- Aug 8
- 2 min
We shape our gatherings and our gatherings shape us back
In my first year of seminary, I took a class called Intro to Worship, and instead of diving straight into the prayer book, we spent the...
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- Aug 5
- 5 min
Maybe it's not complicated
There is a mode of thinking in some Christian traditions that sets them apart from other Christian traditions, and it has to do with how...
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- Jul 25
- 2 min
The work of welcoming young people
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of giving two workshops at the churchwide event for young people called the Episcopal Youth Event....
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- Jul 23
- 3 min
Sowing wheat among weeds, or sowing nothing at all
As a missioner, it's my work to go out among the weeds of the world and try to plant a little bit of wheat. Some priests have a church...
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- Jun 21
- 4 min
The human propensity to forsake
Our young adult bible study has met just about every Wednesday evening for the last almost two years, and in that time, in those dozens...
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- Jun 20
- 2 min
Pride is Christian, haughtiness isn't
This weekend is pride weekend in Fredericksburg, which means Old Mill Park and downtown will fill up on Saturday morning and afternoon...
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- Jun 8
- 4 min
It's either hope or nothing
To be quite honest, this wildfire smoke this week has really thrown me off. I lived in Berkeley California through the worst of the...
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- May 30
- 2 min
Pentecost in the specifics
This weekend the Church celebrated the day of Pentecost, and at The House we celebrated by having church in our backyard for the first...
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- May 28
- 4 min
This Church we build
Happy Pentecost! Pentecost is a fun day for the church because it is celebrated as the Church's birthday, and it holds an interesting...
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- May 5
- 6 min
When belief is complicated, but love is not
As part of a seminary education to become a priest, we all were required to take a preaching class (and thank God for it!). And in the...
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- Apr 3
- 5 min
Would you rather have a conversation or an enemy
I don't know what the experience is of the ELCA writ large or of Christ Lutheran in specific, but there is a stereotype among...
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- Mar 28
- 3 min
Becoming An Adult
It's easy sometimes for our college students to go tunnel-vision on grades and homework and exams and essays. One bad grade or one tough...
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- Mar 22
- 6 min
Top line, bottom line
Back in my previous church in California, during an adult confirmation class, we set up an instructed Eucharist service -- which if...
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- Mar 10
- 5 min
My People, God's People
In seminary, I read a book from the 1960s by an Episcopal priest named Gibson Winter, wherein among the many things he says, he says that...
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- Mar 7
- 2 min
Church is a Work of Imagination
Written for Christ Lutheran Church's weekly newsletter, March 7, 2023. Over the weekend, one of the churches that supports our...
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- Feb 19
- 4 min
Mountaintop Cahoots, Inc.
For five or six summers I've served as a chaplain for Episcopal summer camps in California and in Virginia, and it is always a stunning...
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- Feb 10
- 7 min
"Yeah no that sounds soo fun :))"
I have a terminal case of people pleasing, but my quality of life has been good so far, and then Gen Z came along. It does not matter how...
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