Prayer

  • Unity in Diversity: Lessons from the Three Sisters Garden

    “Of all the wise teachers who have come into my life, none are more eloquent than these, who wordlessly in leaf and vine embody the knowledge of relationship. Alone, a bean is just a vine, squash an oversize leaf. Only… Continue reading

    Unity in Diversity: Lessons from the Three Sisters Garden
  • Living with Intent: Lessons from Mr. Rogers and St. Paul

    You can watch this sermon on the Church of the Holy Trinity’s YouTube Page: The camera pans across the inside of a small, quaint house as jolly piano music plays; the wooden front door opens and in walks a pleasant… Continue reading

    Living with Intent: Lessons from Mr. Rogers and St. Paul
  • Whispers of Hope: Proclaiming Love from the Rooftops

    I have a confession to make. I am a Tennessee Vols fan, which I know is nearly a cardinal sin here in the Diocese of Lexington, but it is my birthright as one who was born and raised with the… Continue reading

    Whispers of Hope: Proclaiming Love from the Rooftops
  • They Will Know Us By Our Love

    There are many ways to teach and to learn. I am a visual learner at best—if I can see it, I can repeat it. When I was a preschool teacher, however, I learned that one of the fastest ways to… Continue reading

    They Will Know Us By Our Love
  • The Unfolding Story

    When my nephews were little, they would love to tell stories, and like every little kid, each story took on a particular child-like wonder. For my youngest nephew, his angle was the never-ending story, when things felt like they were… Continue reading

    The Unfolding Story
  • Hope and Faith to Go Out

    There are those moments wherein which someone says something so striking and so compelling that you have to sit with it for a while and let it wash over you. I had a moment like early in the COVID pandemic,… Continue reading

    Hope and Faith to Go Out
  • Withered Bones in the Embrace of Mercy

           One of my great joys as a priest is Lent, and not just because I like to remind folks that they are gonna die on Ash Wednesday – which, since I missed it because I was sick . .… Continue reading

    Withered Bones in the Embrace of Mercy
  • Working Toward the Dawn

           There is something holy about the break of dawn. Like most folk, my life has had ebbs and flows, but one of my most favorite seasons of life allowed me to witness the slow overwhelm that the day has… Continue reading

    Working Toward the Dawn
  • Waiting in the Dark

    When I was a teacher, some of my favorite stories to read to a group of five-year-old’s were stories that flipped common narratives on their head. Stories which could be told backward and forward, but when you added a different… Continue reading

    Waiting in the Dark
  • The Task of Advent

    Long before I became an Episcopalian or had thoughts of being a priest who might be tasked with preaching, I was a preschool teacher. And while there are many surprising things that overlap between being in ministry and the daily… Continue reading

    The Task of Advent