There is a tradition of spirituality in the church called Ignatian spirituality- named after Ignatius of Loyola who found an order called...

In our campus ministry, we play a little game called Stump The Priest , or in ELCA language, Stump The Pastor . It started out as a...

One of the interesting aspects of my particular ministry within the church is that I am constantly finding myself in ministry and in...

Our campus ministry, if it knows nothing else, knows how to execute the perfect icebreaker question. A few weeks ago, the question was...

You may have seen reports of the sermon given by bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington at the post-inaugural Service of Prayer...

Between Christmas and New Years I had the lovely privilege of attending my friend Spencer's wedding up in New Hampshire and being a...

I preached a sermon about this same story two years ago, in Advent, at Trinity. Then it was Advent 2 and not 3. Then it was Matthew 3 and...

It kind of feels like we have stumbled backwards into a political system wherein every election is framed with the direst of stakes,...

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...

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...

Christ Lutheran, In the Episcopal Church, we have lately been having lots of conversations about discernment: what it is, how to do it,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Last Saturday evening, about a dozen Mary Wash students were arrested from the UMW campus, charged with trespassing, and taken to the...

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...

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...

The Bible is at the same time 66 different books with authorship that spans centuries and also one continuous story. It spans mythos and...