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...

In my last parish where I served as youth minister, our Maundy Thursday service took place downstairs in the parish hall -- we ordered a...

Christ Lutheran, I feel like I have quite an unpopular opinion -- as a pastor -- and the opinion is this: I think we should talk about...

What is it about a baptism that would send Jesus out into the wilderness? What is it about the Spirit that would drive him out into the...

It amuses me how human beings are kind of spongy, how we soak up a bit of the context and the people around us. Like how you spend a...

I love these readings (Genesis 1, John 1, 1 John 1) for an instructed eucharist service because the through line is obvious. In the...

Hi Barbie! Today is Gaudete Sunday which means that the official liturgical color is pink. Thank God. Finally, church for girls!!!!!!!...

A good ten years ago, I took a weeklong intensive leadership course at a seminary, it was a course on community organizing. And the man...

I've spent the last eight years of my career working in age-specific ministries in the church: in middle and high school youth ministry,...

Matthew 5:1-12 I play a lot of video games, and my favorite genre of video games are the kinds of video games where a lone hero faces a...

1 Kings 18:17-39 I would actually love to see a show of hands, how many of you knew this story off the top of your heads? I lead bible...

A unique problem of 21st century ministry among young adults is that as a priest, as the person who runs The House, I had to figure out...

Readings: Genesis 1 Canticle of the Sun So God made a farmer Matthew - Lilies of the field Five years ago, I was invited to lead a...