Feb 18, 2022 | Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
This Monday our country will commemorate Presidents’ Day. My personal celebration of this holiday in past years has had little to do with any presidents and much more to do with taking a ski trip over the long weekend (with roughly a billion other people who are also...
Jan 21, 2022 | Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
I recently found a blessing I had saved long ago in an email folder. I had sent it to myself, with no indication of who wrote it or where I got it. So I did a little googling this morning, and found that the blessing below was written by Brian Baker, an Episcopal...
Dec 24, 2021 | Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
Christmas can be a time of year where there is quite a lot of activity and bustling and “too-much-ness,” even in the midst of a continually evolving pandemic. And yet, the iconic story of the birth of Jesus actually has a stillness and simplicity to it. The Christmas...
Nov 26, 2021 | Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
This Sunday we will mark the beginning of Advent, the time of preparation for the impending celebration of Christmas. As we continue to navigate our way through this time of Covid, we might have fewer parties or gatherings to attend this season. It might be an...
Oct 29, 2021 | Community, International, Pulpit Posts, World
In the sermon I preached a few weeks ago, you might remember that I encouraged us to notice where we were holding onto things in our lives so tightly that we weren’t able to open ourselves to God’s love. I definitely need to learn this lesson as well, which is why I...
