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Summertime Sabbath
Before I was a campus minister and before I was ordained, I lived in Berkeley California and worked at a little Episcopal church in the...

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Jun 9, 20252 min read
The Lord needs it
There is a tradition of spirituality in the church called Ignatian spirituality- named after Ignatius of Loyola who found an order called...

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Apr 10, 20254 min read
Stump The Priest
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...

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Mar 17, 20252 min read


Who is my neighbor? You're gonna not like the answer
One of the interesting aspects of my particular ministry within the church is that I am constantly finding myself in ministry and in...

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Mar 6, 20254 min read


But I don't WANNA
Our campus ministry, if it knows nothing else, knows how to execute the perfect icebreaker question. A few weeks ago, the question was...

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Feb 22, 20255 min read


This novel concept, 'dignity'
You may have seen reports of the sermon given by bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington at the post-inaugural Service of Prayer...

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Jan 24, 20255 min read
Abundance- but how exactly?
Between Christmas and New Years I had the lovely privilege of attending my friend Spencer's wedding up in New Hampshire and being a...

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Jan 18, 20255 min read


You brood of vipers pt. 2
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...

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Dec 14, 20244 min read


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

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Nov 5, 20245 min read
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 23, 20243 min read
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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Aug 13, 20242 min read
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 30, 20242 min read


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 25, 20244 min read


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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Jul 1, 20245 min read


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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Jun 27, 20244 min read


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 24, 20247 min read
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 19, 20244 min read
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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May 5, 20244 min read


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 18, 20248 min read


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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Apr 12, 20246 min read
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