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December 2023

December 01, 2023
“Advent,” which means the arrival or the coming, is my favorite liturgical season. And yes,...

November 2023

November 28, 2023
{Perhaps my favorite thing about this season is reminding readers (and myself) how subversive are...
November 20, 2023
Perhaps my favorite thing about the Christmas season—just a few days away—is reminding myself and...
November 14, 2023
In the earliest photo of us, I am concealed behind the bloom of Wren’s baptismal...
November 07, 2023
Celebrants press wall-to-wall into houses where we gather, forty to sixty people, night after night...

October 2023

October 31, 2023
One of the main tenets of Christianity is the belief that we are transformed by...
October 24, 2023
Do you too feel it—the disorienting internal pressure we experience in social-media-soaked times to say...
October 17, 2023
A repeated theme in the gospels is riddles. Both people trying to trick Jesus with...
October 09, 2023
Whenever I talk about parables, I include the same reminder: a parable is a snapshot,...
October 03, 2023
The unthinkable is happening. One of the country’s two major political parties has become the...

September 2023

September 29, 2023
Roughly seven years ago; late-summer day under a New Mexico sky, the blue of which...
September 19, 2023
The upcoming lectionary passage in Matthew 20:1-16 strikes me as timely. The attitude we see...
September 12, 2023
Last Sunday marked the anniversary of my ordination to the Episcopal diaconate in a pandemic,...
September 05, 2023
What does it mean in our context to “take up one’s cross”? And how is...

August 2023

August 29, 2023
In last Sunday's gospel lectionary passage, Mt 16:13-20, we read about Peter receiving the “keys...
August 23, 2023
Over half of my life I operated not from a perspective of abundance but scarcity....
August 16, 2023
This week, our farm acquired a rooster needing a home. He is big and bantam,...
August 09, 2023
In talking about his book Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialist World, David Epstein...
August 04, 2023
For six years in my mid-30s, I stopped attending church. I thought the only way...

July 2023

July 28, 2023
{For the beginning of this series, click HERE} July brought a turnaround from my early...
July 26, 2023
Let me tell you a little parable. The kingdom of God is like this: A...
July 19, 2023
It has been years since I had a shower. In 2007, when I built a...
July 13, 2023
I am currently in the thrall of Succession, the HBO series that recently ended (and...
July 05, 2023
For many millennials (not to mention others), Taylor Swift is a religious experience. One such...

June 2023

June 29, 2023
Understanding the culture behind the scriptures helps much with certain passages. This week’s lectionary gospel...
June 23, 2023
I’m reading the follow up to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale (The Testaments) and again...
June 16, 2023
In praise of waking when wakefulness stirs you because you do not own an alarm...
June 09, 2023
{For the beginning of this series, click HERE} A bit of truth-telling: I have complex...
June 06, 2023
I often point out how in Jesus’ teaching of God’s vision, ‘the first will be...

May 2023

May 31, 2023
{These questions—written during the Pandemic—seem as timely as ever.} Sprawled on handmade quilts in a...
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