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January 2024
16:  
Tell me your story

April 2023
05:  
For life

December 2022
21:  
The (good) news
13:  
By the light of a star
01:  
What does it mean to be "ready?"

November 2022
28:  
Advent started yesterday...

June 2022
27:  
Pentecost +3C - Burn it all down

May 2022
21:  
#blessed

December 2021
25:  
Keeping Advent/Christmas: And to all a good and gentle night
21:  
Keeping Advent: Blessing for the longest night
19:  
Keeping Advent: About this getting ready business...
17:  
Keeping Advent: What does it mean to be "ready," anyway?
13:  
Keeping Advent: Gaudete (rejoice!)
12:  
Keeping Advent: On Gaudete Sunday, we wear pink.
07:  
Keeping Advent: A better way
06:  
Keeping Advent: Awakening
01:  
Keeping Advent: Beauty and terror

November 2021
30:  
Keeping Advent: Yet I believe beyond believing...
29:  
Keeping Advent: The irrational season, explained
28:  
Keeping Advent: The irrational season
24:  
Meditations with 1 John: A new (or is it old?) commandment. (1 John 2:3-11)
02:  
Meditations with 1 John: Do we deceive ourselves? (1 John 1:5--2:2)

October 2021
12:  
Meditations with 1 John: The word of life (1:1-4)

September 2021
19:  
Pentecost +17 - Arguing on the way
15:  
A new heart
08:  
The birds of the air
01:  
A New Thing

August 2021
29:  
Consider one another as created in God’s Image
08:  
Pentecost +11B - Eat and drink for the journey

July 2021
25:  
Pentecost +9B - Five loaves and twelve baskets
18:  
Pentecost +8B - Like sheep without a shepherd
11:  
Pentecost +7B - The power paradox
04:  
Pentecost +6B - Second looks

June 2021
27:  
Pentecost +5B - Listening is an act of love
20:  
Pentecost +4B - Out of chaos
06:  
Pentecost +2B - A house divided

May 2021
23:  
Day of Pentecost B - Movin’ Out

April 2021
11:  
Easter 2B - Blessing our Doubts
04:  
Resurrection of Our Lord B - Bring it to Life

March 2021
28:  
Palm Sunday B - March on Jerusalem
24:  
Things we can bless
14:  
Lent 4B - Everlasting Grace
07:  
Lent 3B - Everlasting Wisdom

February 2021
21:  
Lent 1B - Everlasting Hope
17:  
Ash Wednesday B - Everlasting Life
14:  
Transfiguration of Our Lord B - Unprecedented (or, "the next right thing")

January 2021
31:  
Epiphany +4B - Speaking to our demons
17:  
Epiphany +2B - Love made concrete
03:  
Epiphany B - Home By Another Road

December 2020
26:  
Christmas Saturday - The Risk of Birth
25:  
Christmas Day - O Come, All Ye Faithful
24:  
Christmas Eve - Mary at the Nativity
23:  
Advent 4 Wednesday - Housekeeper
22:  
Advent 4 Tuesday - In Darkest Night
21:  
Advent 4 Monday - Christmastide
20:  
Advent 4 Sunday - The Annunciation
19:  
Advent 3 Saturday - Advent Good Wishes
17:  
Advent 3 Thursday - In Dark December
16:  
Advent 3 Wednesday - Rejoice in the Lord Alway
15:  
Advent 3 Tuesday - First Coming
14:  
Advent 3 Monday - Gaudete
13:  
Advent 3 Sunday - Gaudete
12:  
Advent 2 Saturday - In Silent Night
11:  
Advent 2 Friday - Into This Silent Night
10:  
Advent 2 Thursday - E'en So Lord Jesus Quickly Come
09:  
Advent 2 Wednesday - Quiet Time
08:  
Advent 2 Tuesday - Wonderful Peace
07:  
Advent 2 Monday - Amazing Peace
06:  
Advent 2 Sunday - The Peace of Wild Things
05:  
Advent 1 Saturday - Angels Still Appear
04:  
Advent 1 Friday - First Light
03:  
Advent 1 Thursday - Will There Really Be a Morning?
02:  
Advent 1 Wednesday - In Mary-Darkness
01:  
Advent 1 Tuesday - All Earth is Hopeful

November 2020
30:  
Advent 1 Monday - Advent Calendar
29:  
Advent 1 Sunday - Blessing of Hope
25:  
Give Thanks in...All Circumstances?

July 2020
26:  
Pentecost +8A - Do you understand
12:  
Pentecost +6A - Planting is an act of faith
05:  
Pentecost + 5A - This burden

June 2020
28:  
Pentecost +4A - Work that finds a welcome
14:  
Pentecost +2A: Sheep to the wolves

May 2020
31:  
Day of Pentecost (Year A) - Send down the fire
17:  
Easter 6A - The one who walks with us
07:  
Peace, despite myself
03:  
Easter 4A - The voice of abundant life

April 2020
05:  
Palm Sunday A - Save us

March 2020
22:  
Lent 4A - God's love heals
08:  
Lent 2A - God's love reaches

February 2020
26:  
Ash Wednesday: Return to Love
23:  
Transfiguration A - From the cloud
16:  
Epiphany +6A - Small things with great love

January 2020
26:  
Epiphany +3A - In All Seasons
14:  
Taking space
12:  
Baptism of Our Lord (A) - The second thing
08:  
Quotable Wednesdays: Amy-Jill Levine on Light and Dark

December 2019
23:  
Keeping Advent: The Cherry Tree Carol
19:  
Keeping Advent: Adam Lay Ybounden
18:  
Keeping Advent: Anxiety Doesn't Knock First
17:  
Keeping Advent: The Hills are Bare at Bethlehem
16:  
Keeping Advent: [little tree]
13:  
Keeping Advent: Well of Sorrow (St. Lucia Day)
12:  
Keeping Advent: There is a Flower
11:  
Keeping Advent: Up-Hill
10:  
Keeping Advent: Jul, jul, strålande jul
09:  
Keeping Advent: The Peace of Wild Things
08:  
Keeping Advent/Advent 2A: Wonderful Peace
05:  
Keeping Advent: How are you?
04:  
Keeping Advent: Yesterday's Pain
03:  
Keeping Advent: First Coming
02:  
Keeping Advent: This is not the end
01:  
Keeping Advent: Blessing when the world is ending

November 2019
10:  
Pentecost +22C - God is with us

October 2019
27:  
Reformation Sunday - Free indeed
20:  
St. Luke Sunday - Healing now, salvation to come
06:  
Pentecost +17C - Forgiveness out loud

September 2019
08:  
Pentecost +13C - Holy decluttering

August 2019
25:  
Pentecost +11C - More than beautiful
18:  
Pentecost +10C - Friction makes fire
11:  
Pentecost +9C - Do not be afraid
04:  
Pentecost +8C - Learning to Listen

July 2019
28:  
Pentecost +7C - What you need
21:  
Pentecost +6C - Jesus the host

June 2019
23:  
Pentecost +2C - With a whisper
02:  
Ascension C: What are you waiting for?

May 2019
19:  
Easter 5C: Do you not perceive it?
05:  
Easter 3C: Showing Up

April 2019
21:  
Easter C: Idle Tales
07:  
Lent 5C - Broken and poured out

March 2019
24:  
Lent 3C: Not cut off
17:  
Lent 2C: Beneath these wings
10:  
Lent 1C: Wilderness grief
06:  
Ash Wednesday C: Walking all the way

February 2019
03:  
Epiphany +4C: When the honeymoon is over

January 2019
27:  
Epiphany +3C: The Spirit of the Lord
13:  
Baptism of Our Lord C: Turning point
03:  
Keeping Christmas: Quem Pastores Laudavere
02:  
Keeping Christmas: Star Song
01:  
Keeping Christmas: One Sweet Little Baby

December 2018
31:  
Real talk - New Year’s Eve
31:  
Keeping Christmas: Ring out wild bells
28:  
Keeping Christmas: A Lullaby
24:  
Keeping Christmas: Mary at the Nativity
21:  
Keeping Advent: A Hymn to the Virgin
19:  
Keeping Advent: Magnificat
17:  
Keeping Advent: I Will Light Candles This Christmas
16:  
Advent 3C - (The Real) Good News
16:  
Keeping Advent: River of Joy
15:  
Keeping Advent: First Coming
14:  
Keeping Advent: Sunlight

December 2018
13:  
Keeping Advent: Well of Sorrow
12:  
Keeping Advent: Advent
11:  
Keeping Advent: The Bell and the Blackbird
10:  
Keeping Advent: Advent in the Dark
09:  
Keeping Advent: God’s Highway
07:  
Keeping Advent: Into This Silent Night
06:  
Keeping Advent: Nativity
05:  
Keeping Advent: Each winter as the year grows older
04:  
Keeping Advent: Song of the Stars
03:  
Keeping Advent: Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars
02:  
Advent 1C - The signs and the seasons
02:  
Keeping Advent: The Magician’s Nephew
01:  
Keeping Advent: Blessing When the World is Ending

November 2018
18:  
Pentecost +27B - What now?
11:  
Pentecost +25B - What Jesus sees

October 2018
21:  
Commemoration of St. Luke - Hospitality and Healing
14:  
Pentecost +21B - How to inherit eternal life (it's easier and harder than you think)

September 2018
30:  
Pentecost +19B - We need each other
09:  
Pentecost +16B - Be opened
02:  
Pentecost +15B - Doers of the word

July 2018
15:  
Pentecost +8B - Free to dance

June 2018
17:  
Pentecost +4B - Tangled and holy
09:  
Face to face

May 2018
27:  
Holy Trinity (Year B) - Creating space
13:  
Ascension (Year B) - A story to tell
06:  
Easter 6B - All for love

April 2018
15:  
Easter 3B - Order of operations
08:  
Easter 2B - Communities of resurrection
01:  
Resurrection of Our Lord B - What did you expect to find here?

March 2018
18:  
Lent 5B - A new covenant and a new commandment
04:  
Lent 3B - Toppling violence, wielding love

February 2018
18:  
Lent 1B - God's long memory
14:  
Ash Wednesday - In the face of mortality
04:  
Epiphany +5B - Unbinding hope

January 2018
21:  
Epiphany +3B - Better than an impulse buy

December 2017
29:  
Keeping Christmas: Fly Like a Bird
28:  
Keeping Christmas - Coventry Carol
27:  
Keeping Christmas - I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
26:  
Keeping Christmas - And the Glory of the Lord
25:  
Keeping Christmas - Christmas Poem
24:  
Christmas Eve - All the weary world
24:  
Keeping Advent (4B Sunday) - Shepherd's Carol
23:  
Keeping Advent (3B Saturday) - Sweet was the song
22:  
Keeping Advent (3B Friday) - Yesterday's Pain
21:  
Keeping Advent (3B Thursday) - Mary, Sweet Mary
20:  
Keeping Advent (3B Wednesday) - The Gift of Stillness
19:  
Keeping Advent (3B Tuesday) - Night of Silence
18:  
Keeping Advent (3B Monday) - Love has come
17:  
Advent 3B - Rejoice always
17:  
Keeping Advent (3B Sunday) - Joseph
16:  
Keeping Advent (2B Saturday) - Magnificat
15:  
Keeping Advent (2B Friday) - The other annunciation
14:  
Keeping Advent (2B Thursday) - All Glory be to Christ
13:  
Keeping Advent (2B Wednesday) - Annunciation
12:  
Keeping Advent (2B Tuesday) - God's Highway
11:  
Keeping Advent (2B Monday) - Hesitation Theory
10:  
Keeping Advent (2B Sunday) - A Step Along the Way
09:  
Keeping Advent (1B Saturday) - And On Jerusalem Peace
08:  
Keeping Advent (1B Friday) - The Shepherd and Abundant Life
07:  
Keeping Advent (1B Thursday) - The Friendly Beasts
06:  
Keeping Advent (1B Wednesday) - There is a flower
05:  
Keeping Advent (1B Tuesday): A Prayer to the Prince of Peace
04:  
Keeping Advent (1B Monday) - God loves the world
03:  
Advent 1B - Advent when the world is horrible
03:  
Keeping Advent (1B Sunday) - His Light in Us
02:  
Keeping Advent (Prelude Saturday): O Star-Flinging God
01:  
Keeping Advent (Prelude Friday): Let There Be Light

October 2017
30:  
The blue whale
25:  
The tree and the breeze
16:  
Commemoration of St. Luke, Evangelist - Carried by Christ

September 2017
10:  
Pentecost +14 - The Law of Love

August 2017
31:  
My tired imagination
29:  
Pentecost +12 - I know whom I have believed
13:  
Pentecost +10: What do you have to fear
06:  
Pentecost +9 - Talking in parables

July 2017
24:  
Pentecost +7 - Invasive species
10:  
Pentecost +5: Come to Me

June 2017
25:  
Pentecost +3: Into the fire
04:  
Day of Pentecost - Spirit of Peace

May 2017
21:  
Easter 6 - We too are God's offspring
07:  
Easter 4 - To Whom Shall We Go
01:  
Planting Our Apple Trees

April 2017
16:  
Easter Day: Chasing Resurrection
14:  
Holy Week: Good Friday
13:  
Holy Week: Maundy Thursday
12:  
Holy Week: Wednesday
11:  
Holy Week: Tuesday
10:  
Holy Week: Monday
09:  
Holy Week: Palm Sunday

March 2017
22:  
Keeping Lent: Come to the Water
19:  
Lent 3 - To be known is to be loved
14:  
Keeping Lent: Born Again
13:  
Keeping Lent: Enlightenment
12:  
Keeping Lent: God So Loved the World
11:  
Keeping Lent: Beloved
10:  
Keeping Lent: Desert Places
09:  
Things you should know about your pastor
09:  
Keeping Lent: The Peace of Wild Things
08:  
Keeping Lent: Wildpeace
07:  
Keeping Lent: You shall love him
06:  
Keeping Lent: Wilderness
05:  
Lent 1: Who we are in the wild
05:  
Keeping Lent: The Devil and the Desert
04:  
Keeping Lent: The Journey
03:  
Keeping Lent: The Ashes
02:  
Keeping Lent: Create in me a clean heart
01:  
Ash Wednesday: Grounded
01:  
Keeping Lent: Ash Wednesday

January 2017
01:  
Keeping Christmas (Day 8): Name of Jesus

December 2016
29:  
Keeping Christmas (Day 5): No room
28:  
Keeping Christmas (Commemoration of the Holy Innocents - Day 4): Cradle Hymn
27:  
Keeping Christmas (Commemoration of St. John - Day 3): Shine in the Dark
26:  
Keeping Christmas (Commemoration of St. Stephen - Day 2): Good King Wenceslas
25:  
Keeping Christmas (Christmas Day - Day 1): The Glory of the Father
24:  
Keeping Advent (4A Saturday): The Shepherds' Wives
23:  
Keeping Advent (4A Friday): At the Manger Mary Sings
22:  
Keeping Advent (4A Thursday): Puer Natus in Bethlehem
21:  
Keeping Advent (4A Wednesday): Housekeeper
20:  
Keeping Advent (4A Tuesday): Advent Calendar
19:  
Keeping Advent (4A Monday): People, Look East
18:  
Advent 4: Joseph's Son
18:  
Keeping Advent (4A Sunday): Who would have dreamed?
17:  
Keeping Advent (3A Saturday): O Sapientia
16:  
Keeping Advent (3A Friday): Carol of the Stranger
15:  
Keeping Advent (3A Thursday): The Overshadow
14:  
Keeping Advent (3A Wednesday): In Mary-Darkness
13:  
Keeping Advent (3A Tuesday): The Messenger
12:  
Keeping Advent (3A Monday): John
11:  
Keeping Advent (3A Sunday): He shall reign forevermore
10:  
Keeping Advent (2A Saturday): Kingdom of God
09:  
Keeping Advent (2A Friday): Morning reflections
08:  
Keeping Advent (2A Thursday): Climb to the top of the highest mountain
07:  
Keeping Advent (2A Wednesday): The peace of wild things
06:  
Keeping Advent (2A Tuesday): The rose
05:  
Advent 2: More than survival
05:  
Keeping Advent (2A Monday): Peace
04:  
Keeping Advent (2A Sunday): The Art of Naming
03:  
Keeping Advent (1A Saturday): The Companionable Dark
02:  
Keeping Advent (1A Friday): Oh Light
01:  
Keeping Advent (1A Thursday): Stars

November 2016
30:  
Keeping Advent (1A Wednesday): The Song of Peace
29:  
Keeping Advent (1A Tuesday): Of the Empire
28:  
Keeping Advent (1A Monday): Every Day
27:  
Keeping Advent (1A Sunday): Wake Awake
22:  
Thanksgiving: Rejoice and give thanks always
20:  
Christ the King: What kind of king?
13:  
26 Pentecost: In the cracks
09:  
What the cracks reveal

October 2016
10:  
21 Pentecost - Doing what is faithful
05:  
Beautiful Death: Freda

September 2016
28:  
Doing what we ought
27:  
Beautiful Death: Adele
25:  
19 Pentecost: Who is the good news for?
19:  
18 Pentecost: Everything is replaceable
06:  
16 Pentecost: How to choose life

August 2016
29:  
My Hands, God's Hands
22:  
14 Pentecost: You are set free
08:  
12 Pentecost: Look at the stars

July 2016
25:  
10 Pentecost: When prayer is not enough
17:  
9 Pentecost: Worried and distracted by many things

June 2016
28:  
It will cost you your life
27:  
6 Pentecost: An urgent matter
23:  
Peacemaking is not a publicity stunt
14:  
Perfect love casts out all fear
09:  
You have heard it said

May 2016
30:  
2 Pentecost: Close but not too close
16:  
Pentecost: In any language
04:  
A matter of Spirit
02:  
Easter 6: For the healing of the nations

April 2016
25:  
Easter 5: A new spirit
11:  
Easter 3 - The epilogue

March 2016
20:  
Palm Sunday - Grand intentions
18:  
Best face forward
09:  
Spring cleaning

February 2016
29:  
Lent 3 - About lemons
15:  
Lent 1 - Wanting nothing, having everything
01:  
Blurred lines: faith and politics

January 2016
25:  
3 Epiphany - It's not about you
18:  
2 Epiphany: Rich in water and in wine
04:  
The invisible signal to fly

December 2015
26:  
Christmas Day: Soft Edges
08:  
The year of Zechariah

November 2015
26:  
Thanksgiving: Give thanks in all circumstances
23:  
Christ the King: We are not afraid
16:  
When the stars begin to fall
09:  
24 Pentecost: Noticing the unnoticed

October 2015
26:  
Reformation Day: A place of freedom
19:  
21 Pentecost: Pockets full of Thin Mints

September 2015
28:  
18 Pentecost: The work of Christ is the work of Christ is the work of Christ
14:  
16 Pentecost: The weary and the exile
11:  
Toddlers, trains, and toast

August 2015
31:  
14 Pentecost: Bionic heartbeats
10:  
11 Pentecost: Eat this bread: What is our world hungry for?
03:  
10 Pentecost: Signs and manna: What is enough?

July 2015
22:  
Quotable Wednesdays: Recovering the weird
20:  
8 Pentecost: This inconvenient calling
13:  
7 Pentecost: Power and empathy

June 2015
21:  
4 Pentecost: Why are you afraid?
16:  
Anointing oil
15:  
The wrong book
01:  
On (not) getting it done

May 2015
31:  
Holy Trinity: In the middle of the night
26:  
Water and Spirit
20:  
Green miracles
19:  
Ascension: Trust one another
14:  
The food that satisfies
04:  
Easter 5: Love that casts out fear

April 2015
20:  
Easter 4: Resurrection of the body
16:  
Specifically, all of you
02:  
Maundy Thursday: Candle in the wind

March 2015
29:  
Palm Sunday: The back gate
19:  
Taking up space: The empty space
16:  
Lent 4 - Into the light
12:  
Taking up space: The space between
11:  
Quotable Wednesdays: Toward the light
01:  
Lent 2 - A future with hope

February 2015
16:  
Transfiguration: Changed from glory into glory
10:  
5 Epiphany: The free gospel for free
02:  
Taking up space: The idea

January 2015
28:  
Quotable Wednesdays: Broken heart
27:  
Affirmation and caffeination
26:  
3 Epiphany: Answering the call
19:  
Seasons
12:  
Baptism of Our Lord - Torn apart

December 2014
02:  
The patience of our Lord

November 2014
19:  
Snow and gratitude

October 2014
15:  
Quotable Wednesdays: Heavenly comfort
14:  
Cool Whip cake and resurrection
10:  
Into the deep
08:  
Quotable Wednesdays: The power of love
07:  
Prayer is peeling away the layers

September 2014
29:  
16 Pentecost: The way things stack up
24:  
Quotable Wednesdays: The thing with feathers
23:  
Even pastors have sad days
03:  
Quotable Wednesdays: I can believe

August 2014
27:  
Quotable Wednesdays: The world is so full
25:  
Worth more than the worst thing
18:  
10 Pentecost: Grasping for crumbs
07:  
Winning. It isn't everything.
06:  
Quotable Wednesdays: The things that matter
04:  
A little bit of hope

July 2014
30:  
Quotable Wednesdays: The truth will set you free (but it will crush you first)
29:  
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and faith in God
22:  
Beautiful things
17:  
By love and for love
09:  
Quotable Wednesdays: Death and resurrection
05:  
Stubborn roots
02:  
Quotable Wednesdays: Expecting revelation

June 2014
30:  
Waiting for the last word
25:  
Quotable Wednesdays: To ask and bless
25:  
2 Pentecost: Into the dark
18:  
Quotable Wednesdays: A pervasive quality of sadness
17:  
Taste and see
05:  
Beautiful. Touching. Holy.
03:  
Running a holy (and sweaty) race
02:  
Something old, something new

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