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

This weekend the Church celebrated the day of Pentecost, and at The House we celebrated by having church in our backyard for the first...

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...

Back in my previous church in California, during an adult confirmation class, we set up an instructed Eucharist service -- which if...

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...

Written for Christ Lutheran Church's weekly newsletter, March 7, 2023. Over the weekend, one of the churches that supports our...

I find myself perpetually astounded at the extent to which we treat the calling of Jesus' disciples as a normal, or even relatable thing....

In my ministry with young adults and college students, we loveeee a good icebreaker question. It can be hard and weird and awkward to...

You might've heard me preach a few Sundays ago about The House -- our Episcopal-Lutheran campus and young adult ministry -- having...

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...

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...

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...

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....

It's fun work to be a young adult missioner, because the young adult mission is simple: build something fun and relational and faithful...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

At the risk of being pedantic, sometimes it can be illuminating to ask some obvious questions, or at least questions that seem obvious....