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...

I think that I get pigeonholed sometimes into just the arts&crafts priest, the I just want to sit in camping chairs priest and not do any...

My job as your young adult missioner takes me all over Fredericksburg, into all kinds of wild spaces and into relationship with all kinds...

Among the many practices of Ignatian spirituality, is the practice of using one's imagination to place oneself in a story of scripture so...

I preached a sermon a few weeks ago at Trinity Episcopal Church about how all summer long I felt like Jesus on the mountain by himself --...

In our Gospel reading last week, Jesus headed off for some introvert time, he literally got into a boat and paddled out in the middle of...

In my first year of seminary, I took a class called Intro to Worship, and instead of diving straight into the prayer book, we spent the...

There is a mode of thinking in some Christian traditions that sets them apart from other Christian traditions, and it has to do with how...

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of giving two workshops at the churchwide event for young people called the Episcopal Youth Event....