The Table Blog

Dear Church, Yesterday the good news we proclaimed was this: The love of God makes room for anger. We cannot imitate God unless we learn to be angry well.Church: may we seek the love that has room for righteous, sacrificial, evil-naming, Kingdom-seeking, truth-telling anger in our…

Church, Mallory spent time in her sermon this past Sunday illuminating a reading of the story of Bathsheba and David that, in my experience at least, has been largely overlooked. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet you can check it…

Dear Church, This past Sunday I preached from the stories of David’s sin against Bathsheba, and Jesus feeding the five thousand in John 6, proclaiming that Jesus is pulling us out of our fearful grasping for power and privilege, and gathering us into his kingdom,…

Dear Church, I mentioned on Sunday morning during announcements at the end of our service that there is an abuse situation happening in another diocese in our province. This is outside our specific diocese (Churches for the Sake of Others – C4SO), but inside our…

As a church, we have been in a season of learning about power: how it works, how to see it, and what to do with it. Mostly, we have been learning to reckon with our own power and privilege as a predominantly white, middle-class church.…

Dear Church,  I wanted to share a more personal word with you this week.  I mentioned a few weeks back that I made a decision to take better care of myself post-pandemic, in particular, being intentional about my ADHD and seeking treatment for that.  Here’s…

The good news proclamation from this past Sunday was from Mark 4:35-41–the well-known story of Jesus calming the wind and the waves. We proclaimed that as we follow Jesus into boundary-crossing mission, we can count on opposition; storms of chaos that threaten to sink us.…

Dear Church, This past Sunday felt a little surreal: all of us, together, with unveiled faces beholding the Lord (and each other!). I’ve been waiting fifteen months to experience that with y’all again; I know many of you have been too.  I’m encouraged by how we, as…

Church, This past Sunday we had the joy of celebrating Emmy Jo Crawford’s baptism together. It was so lovely to celebrate an in-person baptism together for the first time in over a year! I was not raised in a church that celebrated infant baptism, so…

Dear Church, This past Sunday was Trinity Sunday, which is always perilous for preachers. It’s quite easy to accidentally preach heresy, especially if you try and explain the Trinity using an analogy or illustration. I quoted theologian Herbert McCabe, who said Dealing with God is…