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...

Our young adult bible study has met just about every Wednesday evening for the last almost two years, and in that time, in those dozens...

To be quite honest, this wildfire smoke this week has really thrown me off. I lived in Berkeley California through the worst of the...

Happy Pentecost! Pentecost is a fun day for the church because it is celebrated as the Church's birthday, and it holds an interesting...

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...

I have a terminal case of people pleasing, but my quality of life has been good so far, and then Gen Z came along. It does not matter how...

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 brood of vipers! Just kidding. That felt bad even to pretend say. Every Advent season, I love it when this passage rolls around from...

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...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have a really weird job. Not weird bad, weird great, but weird complicated. My role is many...

Why,,, would Jesus say this. Why. Like, why. I don't want to hate my family -- I quite like my family and it feels so opposite from what...

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....

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...

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...