Episcopal

  • Missioner Monday: July 21, 2025

    Wednesday with Frankfort Reading Camp at Church of the Ascension (Frankfort, KY) and the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost with St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Lexington, Kentucky When I tell you that Frankfort Reading Camp was a joy to be at, let… Continue reading

    Missioner Monday: July 21, 2025
  • Worried and Distracted? Do Less

    One of the delightfully weird gifts of being Christians in the year of Our Lord 2025 is that we get to reflect on some of the more unique and quirky Christian narratives that have made up our religious history. The… Continue reading

    Worried and Distracted? Do Less
  • Missioner Monday: July 14, 2025

    A full day on Saturday with a Deacon’s Retreat at The Close Retreat Center in Mount Victory, Kentucky and the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost with Christ Church Harlan. A full weekend, dreaming, praying, and planning! Saturday I got to join… Continue reading

    Missioner Monday: July 14, 2025
  • Radical, Expansive Mercy

           I walked into Ms. Ruth Ann’s funeral – my first Episcopal funeral – and it was the moment that I knew that Episcopal Church was my spiritual home. As a relatively new Episcopalian, I was surprised that the vestments… Continue reading

    Radical, Expansive Mercy
  • Missioner Monday: July 7, 2025

    Praying with all of Texas, and especially the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas – Bishop Jones Center. So much of my heart is in Texas, having spent my seminary years there. I have prayed on the edge of Lake Travis,… Continue reading

    Missioner Monday: July 7, 2025
  • Missioner Monday: June 30, 2025

    Chaplain at Mini Camp I & II at The Cathedral Domain! I believe the best way to put it is that The Domain is a thin place. It’s a place of closeness with nature, with each other, and with God.… Continue reading

    Missioner Monday: June 30, 2025
  • God is At Work – Will We Join In?

    One of the easiest ways in which I connect with God is through nature, and I love when I can be with those I love out in God’s beauty. One of the best things about exploring nature with others is… Continue reading

    God is At Work – Will We Join In?
  • Who Are We To Hinder God?

    One can see it the longer one spends out in the garden, or in nature, the ways in which nature tends to take care of itself. But as I’ve learned to garden over the years, I’ve learned that sometimes the… Continue reading

    Who Are We To Hinder God?
  • The Measure We Give

           There are times when I turn to the Holy Scriptures and God’s comfort is undeniable, but sometimes, on the first read, I can read our sacred texts as an impossible bar to clear. In today’s gospel, I have to… Continue reading

    The Measure We Give
  • A Hard Edges and Dark Corners Christmas

    When I had the opportunity to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, an ancient pilgrimage across Northern Spain a few years ago, I shared stories and pictures from that journey with this congregation. One of the conversations I had… Continue reading

    A Hard Edges and Dark Corners Christmas