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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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- Jan 21
- 6 min
A sudden, dramatic shift in priorities
I find myself perpetually astounded at the extent to which we treat the calling of Jesus' disciples as a normal, or even relatable thing....
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- Jan 14
- 6 min
What are you looking for?
In my ministry with young adults and college students, we loveeee a good icebreaker question. It can be hard and weird and awkward to...
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- Nov 28, 2022
- 3 min
The work and the faith of painting
You might've heard me preach a few Sundays ago about The House -- our Episcopal-Lutheran campus and young adult ministry -- having...
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- Nov 19, 2022
- 4 min
The tools of community building
All semester long we have been in our season of arts&crafts at The House with our college students and young adults. It started as my...
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- Nov 10, 2022
- 5 min
The problem of other people
I sat down at my laptop and thought for a while about whether I should try to write my children's sermon first or my pulpit sermon, and I...
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- Oct 7, 2022
- 6 min
Healing, Being Healed
Luke 17:11-19 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers...
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- Aug 20, 2022
- 7 min
Sermon | There are six days on which work ought to be done
Well Christ Lutheran Church, somehow suddenly it is the start of another school year and frankly I have not a clue where the summer went....
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- Jul 25, 2022
- 2 min
Puzzle Pieces
It's fun work to be a young adult missioner, because the young adult mission is simple: build something fun and relational and faithful...
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- Jul 23, 2022
- 6 min
Sermon | Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.
Something that I know about myself is that I am not really all that hardy of a person – I keep my AC set on 69 and if it squeaks up to 72...
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- May 12, 2022
- 3 min
Spring 2022 in Review~ #ELCMWrapped
For a chronology of our semester in the form of a picture gallery, scroll down just a little further! It feels like every time we get our...
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- Apr 25, 2022
- 5 min
A Journey of (Un)Belief
I remember being eight years old -- it was wild to be eight years old and think back on all the things you knew and didn't know -- well I...
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- Apr 2, 2022
- 6 min
Week 5: God's Word
Every Wednesday evening at 8:30pm, without fail, after I close Zoom, I open the little Twitter app on my phone and I tweet: "not to be...
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- Feb 4, 2022
- 4 min
From now on, you'll be fishing for people
I think we take for granted just how different the shape of Jesus' ministry was from our own. He was itinerant, traveling from town to...
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- Jan 30, 2022
- 3 min
When They Try To Throw You Off A Cliff, and other unrelatable stories of Jesus
At the risk of being pedantic, sometimes it can be illuminating to ask some obvious questions, or at least questions that seem obvious....
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- Jan 21, 2022
- 5 min
This Burden of Responsibility
What a wild and tough start to the year, in succession with a wild and tough couple of years. I feel like it's all I talk about and all I...
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- Jan 7, 2022
- 5 min
To Tell The Truth
A million COVID cases on Monday, snow outages, I-95, an insurrection's anniversary, and in-person school starting next -- I've been...
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- Dec 23, 2021
- 3 min
A world worth loving, again
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! All fall, and into the winter, I have been running a Zoom bible study for young adults and during the...
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