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The Labyrinth
A labyrinth is a kind of maze. It’s basically a perfect circle with a path that curls inside leading to a center point. Like the one at...
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Faith is About Action
On the last night Jesus spent with his disciples the Gospels record two different scenes. You, Too, Must by Lisle Gwynn Garrity, A...
Jul 3


What might happen if we pay attention?
When we think of Moses, we generally remember the man who would turn out to be God’s partner in the liberation of the Hebrew people from...
Jun 26


Encounter God in Our Everyday Lives
Perhaps the most common question I am asked as a pastor is how to encounter or meet God. As humans, who are continually seeking to follow...
Jun 19


The Spirit Calls Us to Move
Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, is the day we celebrate the Holy Spirit descending on the disciples sounding something like a mighty...
Jun 5


Jesus' Last Lecture
In the Gospel of John, when Jesus gathers with his disciples in the upper room on the night of his arrest, John records the longest...
May 29


Drawing the Circle Wider
I am rule-follower. I appreciate knowing that there are rules and regulations, standards and expectations, dos and don’ts in our daily...
May 22


Simply Be Present
We find the shortest verse in the Bible in John 11, “Jesus wept.” Break Open by Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity, A Sanctified Art When faced...
May 15


Pool of Tears
Trevor Hudson writes, “Each of us sits next to a pool of tears. As you read my words you are sitting beside your pool; and as I write...
May 8


Asking Questions with Care & Diligence
There’s no denying it, the world in which we live is growing more divided, more isolated, and more disconnected. Over the last several...
May 1


We Had Hoped
It’s Easter evening when we meet Cleopas and his unnamed companion walking to Emmaus. Neither are really known characters in the Gospel...
Apr 24


Maundy Thursday
There is something about Holy Week, and especially Maundy Thursday, that gets me every year. On Maundy Thursday, we remember that before...
Apr 17


Palm Sunday
Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. Even the Stones Will Cry by Lauren Wright Pittman, A Sanctified Art It’s the beginning of a...
Apr 10


The Extraordinary in All People
In his collection of essays, The Weight of Glory , C.S. Lewis writes, “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and...
Apr 3


The Lamb
As Luke sets the scene, Jesus is in trouble for hanging out with the wrong people. When “all the tax collectors and sinners” come and...
Mar 27


The Fig Tree
As we flip ahead to Luke 13, we find ourselves in the middle of Jesus’s teachings. Jesus tells them a parable. There is a fig tree...
Mar 20


Mary and Martha
As we find ourselves with Jesus on the road to Jerusalem, we come to what has always been one my least favorite texts. Yes, you read that...
Mar 13
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Everything [in] Between
Some of my favorite places in creation come from the in-between spaces. In the space between night and day, the sun and atmosphere ...
Mar 6


The Transfiguration
On Sunday we celebrate Transfiguration Sunday, the peak of the church season we call Epiphany, which we have been celebrating since...
Feb 27


We Were Made for Joy
One of my seminary professors, Kenda Creasy Dean, wrote a challenging book geared towards youth leaders, but applicable to anyone in the...
Feb 20
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