Calling & Clarity

  • Transformation of Forgiveness

    One of my deepest held beliefs is that pretty much everything is “figure-outable;” almost everything in this life we can figure out if we have the time, talent, or tools. When I first started hiking, I didn’t know how trails… Continue reading

    Transformation of Forgiveness
  • Church is a Group Project

    This sermon can be listened to here: Church is a Group Project             When I add up the years, my life has essentially run on an academic calendar since I was 5-years-old; between my primary schooling, secondary education, the years… Continue reading

    Church is a Group Project
  • Faith Like the Ocean

           In his short, poetic book named Pond River Ocean Rain: Find Peace in the Storms of Life, Charles Lattimore Howard reflects on how God can perhaps best be understood as Water. He writes that there are times when God… Continue reading

    Faith Like the Ocean
  • Being the Good Soil

    When I bought my house, the first thing I wanted to do was get a garden growing, and the first seeds I planted at my house were wildflowers. In preparation, I spent countless hours pulling the crabgrass that makes up… Continue reading

    Being the Good Soil
  • The Next Right Step

    One of my most valuable lessons from my Sabbatical last summer wherein which I got to walk the Camino across northern Spain, is the critical importance of what I’ve come to call “despair breaks.” A despair break allows a bit… Continue reading

    The Next Right Step
  • Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer

                One of my very favorite phrases in this world is, “More is caught than taught.” I first learned it when I was a preschool teacher, and it consistently rang true. If I sat crisscross-applesauce on the carpet ready for… Continue reading

    Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer
  • Do Not Leave Us Comfortless

    As a kid, I was sort of always sick. I can tell the big stories, like how one year when decorating a live Christmas tree with my family, I stopped breathing and rushed to the hospital. And the boring stories… Continue reading

    Do Not Leave Us Comfortless
  • God Restores Our Souls

    This sermon can be listened to here: God Restores Our Souls Like many of you, I find myself standing firmly in the Episcopal tradition not because of, but despite much my early religious training. While my religious heritage gave me… Continue reading

    God Restores Our Souls
  • Faith Like Mary

    This sermon can be listened to here: Faith Like Mary       Three days ago, while we gathered in this church to pray the Solemn Collects and remember Christ’s brutal death on Good Friday, there rose tension and violence in the Old… Continue reading

    Faith Like Mary
  • In the Abyss

    Over the past three years, I’ve found myself saying, “It can’t get much worse than this” about things happening in our world. A global pandemic, cataclysmic weather events, and violence that seems be the ground on which our society stands;… Continue reading

    In the Abyss