Pastoral Letters

Dear siblings in Christ, Even as we are only just entering into Holy Week, Easter will be here before we know it. And Easter isn’t just one day – it’s 50 days of celebration and feasting! (It says a lot about our faith that Easter…

This past Sunday was the Fifth Sunday in Lent, and the Collect of the Day is one of my favorites. I’m looking forward to praying it throughout the week: Unruly wills and affections In this prayer, we confess that our wills and affections are “unruly,”…

Dear Church, This past Sunday was the Third Sunday in Lent, and the Collect of the Day is a favorite of mine, so I thought I’d share a few reflection on it with you. Here’s the Collect: Almighty God, you know that we have no…

Dear siblings in Christ, Because of the events of past several years, and especially that last 50 days, many of us are feeling more vulnerable than we ever have in our lives. The preponderance of corruption, communicable diseases, and curated chaos are combining to make…

Dear Church, Ash Wednesday is this week, March 5th, and marks the beginning of Lent: 40 days, excluding Sundays, of preparing for Easter Sunday by following Jesus on his way to the cross. Lent is a a way to mark time together and is usually…

Dear siblings in Christ, Lent begins in just five days, on Ash Wednesday, March 5 (you’re invited to join us for Holy Eucharist with the Imposition of Ashes at 7pm). Lent is a season of repentance and renewal, where for 40 days we walk “the…

Dear siblings in Christ, This past Sunday we heard the good news that, by sheer, astonishing grace, despite our sin and shame and shortcomings, Jesus eagerly includes us in the joyful work of cultivating new life in this broken world. We are not spectators or…

Dear Church, This past Sunday I proclaimed that Jesus had set us free from slavery to the fear of death, and I indicated that much of the anti-democratic chicanery we’re experiencing presently in our country is due to the fear of death. Here are 5…

I said in my sermon on Sunday that hope is a “crouched tiger,” confident that, even though we may not see the specific outcomes we desire on the timetable we want, Jesus will respond to our longings for goodness and justice, transforming our scarcity and…

Dear Church, What does it mean to be the Beloved? How does love change us? Identity formation is a key piece of our discipleship. We come by many identities honestly: smart, successful, broken, single, father, responsible, funny, etc. Identifying with a part of who we…