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Maundy Thursday
Jesus says: "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this...

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Apr 14, 20223 min read
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Entering with reverence
Every priest as part of their preparation for ordination, has to complete a hospital chaplaincy internship -- ten or eleven weeks spent...

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Apr 10, 20223 min read
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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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Apr 2, 20226 min read
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What are we trying to build?
A few days ago, I recorded an episode of my podcast, Non-Working Title, with Pastor Chelsea from Micah Ecumenical Ministries. The podcast...

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Mar 19, 20222 min read
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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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Feb 4, 20224 min read
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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 30, 20223 min read
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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 21, 20225 min read
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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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Jan 7, 20225 min read
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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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Dec 23, 20213 min read
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Fall 2021 Wrapped #ELCMWrapped
For a chronology of our semester in the form of a picture gallery, scroll down just a little further! When I started in this role back on...

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Dec 13, 20213 min read
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A Way in the Wilderness
Have we not been in the Wilderness for a good almost two years already? Don't we know what this is like? Well I want to suppose with you...

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Dec 5, 20213 min read
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Waiting & Watching | Announcing our 2021 Advent Devotional
We are happy to share the completed 2021 Advent Devotional -- Waiting & Watching -- a shared project among St. George's Episcopal, Christ...

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Nov 28, 20211 min read
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Christ the King, Caesar the Final Boss
I’m going to show my hand here a little bit and say that I play a lot of video games—I have always played a lot of video games, and I...

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Nov 19, 20217 min read
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The Elephant in the Room
Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly. Plz be seated I’m very happy to be here with St. George’s; it...

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Oct 22, 20217 min read
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Waiting & Watching - An invitation to Advent Devotional 2021
We are happy to invite contributions for our 2021 Advent Daily Devotional on the theme of Waiting & Watching from the members of our four...

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Oct 20, 20214 min read
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Rest is a faithful practice
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so...

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Oct 8, 20213 min read
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The Eye of the Needle
Mark 10:17-31 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to...

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Oct 7, 20214 min read
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What is vocation? (and why it's more than picking a college major)
As often as I am asked to account for what I studied and what work I do, I never fail to get double-takes when I share that I was a...

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Sep 29, 20210 min read
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Are Any Among You Suffering?
Good morning! How are you doing? It's a question I feel like I ask and am asked in reply dozens of times a day, and it always goes...

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Sep 25, 20216 min read
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"The crowd is everything. The crowd is us."
During my final semester of seminary, I read a little book called After Whiteness by Willie James Jennings. In it, Jennings, a professor...

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Sep 2, 20213 min read
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