January 2024
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Tell me your storyApril 2023
05:
For lifeDecember 2022
21:
The (good) news13:
By the light of a star01:
What does it mean to be "ready?"November 2022
28:
Advent started yesterday...June 2022
27:
Pentecost +3C - Burn it all downMay 2022
21:
#blessedDecember 2021
25:
Keeping Advent/Christmas: And to all a good and gentle night21:
Keeping Advent: Blessing for the longest night19:
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 way06:
Keeping Advent: Awakening01:
Keeping Advent: Beauty and terrorNovember 2021
30:
Keeping Advent: Yet I believe beyond believing...29:
Keeping Advent: The irrational season, explained28:
Keeping Advent: The irrational season24:
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 way15:
A new heart08:
The birds of the air01:
A New ThingAugust 2021
29:
Consider one another as created in God’s Image08:
Pentecost +11B - Eat and drink for the journeyJuly 2021
25:
Pentecost +9B - Five loaves and twelve baskets18:
Pentecost +8B - Like sheep without a shepherd11:
Pentecost +7B - The power paradox04:
Pentecost +6B - Second looksJune 2021
27:
Pentecost +5B - Listening is an act of love20:
Pentecost +4B - Out of chaos06:
Pentecost +2B - A house dividedMay 2021
23:
Day of Pentecost B - Movin’ OutApril 2021
11:
Easter 2B - Blessing our Doubts04:
Resurrection of Our Lord B - Bring it to LifeMarch 2021
28:
Palm Sunday B - March on Jerusalem24:
Things we can bless14:
Lent 4B - Everlasting Grace07:
Lent 3B - Everlasting WisdomFebruary 2021
21:
Lent 1B - Everlasting Hope17:
Ash Wednesday B - Everlasting Life14:
Transfiguration of Our Lord B - Unprecedented (or, "the next right thing")January 2021
31:
Epiphany +4B - Speaking to our demons17:
Epiphany +2B - Love made concrete03:
Epiphany B - Home By Another RoadDecember 2020
26:
Christmas Saturday - The Risk of Birth25:
Christmas Day - O Come, All Ye Faithful24:
Christmas Eve - Mary at the Nativity23:
Advent 4 Wednesday - Housekeeper22:
Advent 4 Tuesday - In Darkest Night21:
Advent 4 Monday - Christmastide20:
Advent 4 Sunday - The Annunciation19:
Advent 3 Saturday - Advent Good Wishes17:
Advent 3 Thursday - In Dark December16:
Advent 3 Wednesday - Rejoice in the Lord Alway15:
Advent 3 Tuesday - First Coming14:
Advent 3 Monday - Gaudete13:
Advent 3 Sunday - Gaudete12:
Advent 2 Saturday - In Silent Night11:
Advent 2 Friday - Into This Silent Night10:
Advent 2 Thursday - E'en So Lord Jesus Quickly Come09:
Advent 2 Wednesday - Quiet Time08:
Advent 2 Tuesday - Wonderful Peace07:
Advent 2 Monday - Amazing Peace06:
Advent 2 Sunday - The Peace of Wild Things05:
Advent 1 Saturday - Angels Still Appear04:
Advent 1 Friday - First Light03:
Advent 1 Thursday - Will There Really Be a Morning?02:
Advent 1 Wednesday - In Mary-Darkness01:
Advent 1 Tuesday - All Earth is HopefulNovember 2020
30:
Advent 1 Monday - Advent Calendar29:
Advent 1 Sunday - Blessing of Hope25:
Give Thanks in...All Circumstances?July 2020
26:
Pentecost +8A - Do you understand12:
Pentecost +6A - Planting is an act of faith05:
Pentecost + 5A - This burdenJune 2020
28:
Pentecost +4A - Work that finds a welcome14:
Pentecost +2A: Sheep to the wolvesMay 2020
31:
Day of Pentecost (Year A) - Send down the fire17:
Easter 6A - The one who walks with us07:
Peace, despite myself03:
Easter 4A - The voice of abundant lifeApril 2020
05:
Palm Sunday A - Save usMarch 2020
22:
Lent 4A - God's love heals08:
Lent 2A - God's love reachesFebruary 2020
26:
Ash Wednesday: Return to Love23:
Transfiguration A - From the cloud16:
Epiphany +6A - Small things with great loveJanuary 2020
26:
Epiphany +3A - In All Seasons14:
Taking space12:
Baptism of Our Lord (A) - The second thing08:
Quotable Wednesdays: Amy-Jill Levine on Light and DarkDecember 2019
23:
Keeping Advent: The Cherry Tree Carol19:
Keeping Advent: Adam Lay Ybounden18:
Keeping Advent: Anxiety Doesn't Knock First17:
Keeping Advent: The Hills are Bare at Bethlehem16:
Keeping Advent: [little tree]13:
Keeping Advent: Well of Sorrow (St. Lucia Day)12:
Keeping Advent: There is a Flower11:
Keeping Advent: Up-Hill10:
Keeping Advent: Jul, jul, strålande jul09:
Keeping Advent: The Peace of Wild Things08:
Keeping Advent/Advent 2A: Wonderful Peace05:
Keeping Advent: How are you?04:
Keeping Advent: Yesterday's Pain03:
Keeping Advent: First Coming02:
Keeping Advent: This is not the end01:
Keeping Advent: Blessing when the world is endingNovember 2019
10:
Pentecost +22C - God is with usOctober 2019
27:
Reformation Sunday - Free indeed20:
St. Luke Sunday - Healing now, salvation to come06:
Pentecost +17C - Forgiveness out loudSeptember 2019
08:
Pentecost +13C - Holy declutteringAugust 2019
25:
Pentecost +11C - More than beautiful18:
Pentecost +10C - Friction makes fire11:
Pentecost +9C - Do not be afraid04:
Pentecost +8C - Learning to ListenJuly 2019
28:
Pentecost +7C - What you need21:
Pentecost +6C - Jesus the hostJune 2019
23:
Pentecost +2C - With a whisper02:
Ascension C: What are you waiting for?May 2019
19:
Easter 5C: Do you not perceive it?05:
Easter 3C: Showing UpApril 2019
21:
Easter C: Idle Tales07:
Lent 5C - Broken and poured outMarch 2019
24:
Lent 3C: Not cut off17:
Lent 2C: Beneath these wings10:
Lent 1C: Wilderness grief06:
Ash Wednesday C: Walking all the wayFebruary 2019
03:
Epiphany +4C: When the honeymoon is overJanuary 2019
27:
Epiphany +3C: The Spirit of the Lord13:
Baptism of Our Lord C: Turning point03:
Keeping Christmas: Quem Pastores Laudavere02:
Keeping Christmas: Star Song01:
Keeping Christmas: One Sweet Little BabyDecember 2018
31:
Real talk - New Year’s Eve31:
Keeping Christmas: Ring out wild bells28:
Keeping Christmas: A Lullaby24:
Keeping Christmas: Mary at the Nativity21:
Keeping Advent: A Hymn to the Virgin19:
Keeping Advent: Magnificat17:
Keeping Advent: I Will Light Candles This Christmas16:
Advent 3C - (The Real) Good News16:
Keeping Advent: River of Joy15:
Keeping Advent: First Coming14:
Keeping Advent: SunlightDecember 2018
13:
Keeping Advent: Well of Sorrow12:
Keeping Advent: Advent11:
Keeping Advent: The Bell and the Blackbird10:
Keeping Advent: Advent in the Dark09:
Keeping Advent: God’s Highway07:
Keeping Advent: Into This Silent Night06:
Keeping Advent: Nativity05:
Keeping Advent: Each winter as the year grows older04:
Keeping Advent: Song of the Stars03:
Keeping Advent: Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars02:
Advent 1C - The signs and the seasons02:
Keeping Advent: The Magician’s Nephew01:
Keeping Advent: Blessing When the World is EndingNovember 2018
18:
Pentecost +27B - What now?11:
Pentecost +25B - What Jesus seesOctober 2018
21:
Commemoration of St. Luke - Hospitality and Healing14:
Pentecost +21B - How to inherit eternal life (it's easier and harder than you think)September 2018
30:
Pentecost +19B - We need each other09:
Pentecost +16B - Be opened02:
Pentecost +15B - Doers of the wordJuly 2018
15:
Pentecost +8B - Free to danceJune 2018
17:
Pentecost +4B - Tangled and holy09:
Face to faceMay 2018
27:
Holy Trinity (Year B) - Creating space13:
Ascension (Year B) - A story to tell06:
Easter 6B - All for loveApril 2018
15:
Easter 3B - Order of operations08:
Easter 2B - Communities of resurrection01:
Resurrection of Our Lord B - What did you expect to find here?March 2018
18:
Lent 5B - A new covenant and a new commandment04:
Lent 3B - Toppling violence, wielding loveFebruary 2018
18:
Lent 1B - God's long memory14:
Ash Wednesday - In the face of mortality04:
Epiphany +5B - Unbinding hopeJanuary 2018
21:
Epiphany +3B - Better than an impulse buyDecember 2017
29:
Keeping Christmas: Fly Like a Bird28:
Keeping Christmas - Coventry Carol27:
Keeping Christmas - I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light26:
Keeping Christmas - And the Glory of the Lord25:
Keeping Christmas - Christmas Poem24:
Christmas Eve - All the weary world24:
Keeping Advent (4B Sunday) - Shepherd's Carol23:
Keeping Advent (3B Saturday) - Sweet was the song22:
Keeping Advent (3B Friday) - Yesterday's Pain21:
Keeping Advent (3B Thursday) - Mary, Sweet Mary20:
Keeping Advent (3B Wednesday) - The Gift of Stillness19:
Keeping Advent (3B Tuesday) - Night of Silence18:
Keeping Advent (3B Monday) - Love has come17:
Advent 3B - Rejoice always17:
Keeping Advent (3B Sunday) - Joseph16:
Keeping Advent (2B Saturday) - Magnificat15:
Keeping Advent (2B Friday) - The other annunciation14:
Keeping Advent (2B Thursday) - All Glory be to Christ13:
Keeping Advent (2B Wednesday) - Annunciation12:
Keeping Advent (2B Tuesday) - God's Highway11:
Keeping Advent (2B Monday) - Hesitation Theory10:
Keeping Advent (2B Sunday) - A Step Along the Way09:
Keeping Advent (1B Saturday) - And On Jerusalem Peace08:
Keeping Advent (1B Friday) - The Shepherd and Abundant Life07:
Keeping Advent (1B Thursday) - The Friendly Beasts06:
Keeping Advent (1B Wednesday) - There is a flower05:
Keeping Advent (1B Tuesday): A Prayer to the Prince of Peace04:
Keeping Advent (1B Monday) - God loves the world03:
Advent 1B - Advent when the world is horrible03:
Keeping Advent (1B Sunday) - His Light in Us02:
Keeping Advent (Prelude Saturday): O Star-Flinging God01:
Keeping Advent (Prelude Friday): Let There Be LightOctober 2017
30:
The blue whale25:
The tree and the breeze16:
Commemoration of St. Luke, Evangelist - Carried by ChristSeptember 2017
10:
Pentecost +14 - The Law of LoveAugust 2017
31:
My tired imagination29:
Pentecost +12 - I know whom I have believed13:
Pentecost +10: What do you have to fear06:
Pentecost +9 - Talking in parablesJuly 2017
24:
Pentecost +7 - Invasive species10:
Pentecost +5: Come to MeJune 2017
25:
Pentecost +3: Into the fire04:
Day of Pentecost - Spirit of PeaceMay 2017
21:
Easter 6 - We too are God's offspring07:
Easter 4 - To Whom Shall We Go01:
Planting Our Apple TreesApril 2017
16:
Easter Day: Chasing Resurrection14:
Holy Week: Good Friday13:
Holy Week: Maundy Thursday12:
Holy Week: Wednesday11:
Holy Week: Tuesday10:
Holy Week: Monday09:
Holy Week: Palm SundayMarch 2017
22:
Keeping Lent: Come to the Water19:
Lent 3 - To be known is to be loved14:
Keeping Lent: Born Again13:
Keeping Lent: Enlightenment12:
Keeping Lent: God So Loved the World11:
Keeping Lent: Beloved10:
Keeping Lent: Desert Places09:
Things you should know about your pastor09:
Keeping Lent: The Peace of Wild Things08:
Keeping Lent: Wildpeace07:
Keeping Lent: You shall love him06:
Keeping Lent: Wilderness05:
Lent 1: Who we are in the wild05:
Keeping Lent: The Devil and the Desert04:
Keeping Lent: The Journey03:
Keeping Lent: The Ashes02:
Keeping Lent: Create in me a clean heart01:
Ash Wednesday: Grounded01:
Keeping Lent: Ash WednesdayJanuary 2017
01:
Keeping Christmas (Day 8): Name of Jesus December 2016
29:
Keeping Christmas (Day 5): No room28:
Keeping Christmas (Commemoration of the Holy Innocents - Day 4): Cradle Hymn27:
Keeping Christmas (Commemoration of St. John - Day 3): Shine in the Dark26:
Keeping Christmas (Commemoration of St. Stephen - Day 2): Good King Wenceslas25:
Keeping Christmas (Christmas Day - Day 1): The Glory of the Father24:
Keeping Advent (4A Saturday): The Shepherds' Wives23:
Keeping Advent (4A Friday): At the Manger Mary Sings22:
Keeping Advent (4A Thursday): Puer Natus in Bethlehem21:
Keeping Advent (4A Wednesday): Housekeeper20:
Keeping Advent (4A Tuesday): Advent Calendar19:
Keeping Advent (4A Monday): People, Look East18:
Advent 4: Joseph's Son18:
Keeping Advent (4A Sunday): Who would have dreamed?17:
Keeping Advent (3A Saturday): O Sapientia16:
Keeping Advent (3A Friday): Carol of the Stranger15:
Keeping Advent (3A Thursday): The Overshadow14:
Keeping Advent (3A Wednesday): In Mary-Darkness13:
Keeping Advent (3A Tuesday): The Messenger12:
Keeping Advent (3A Monday): John11:
Keeping Advent (3A Sunday): He shall reign forevermore10:
Keeping Advent (2A Saturday): Kingdom of God09:
Keeping Advent (2A Friday): Morning reflections08:
Keeping Advent (2A Thursday): Climb to the top of the highest mountain07:
Keeping Advent (2A Wednesday): The peace of wild things06:
Keeping Advent (2A Tuesday): The rose05:
Advent 2: More than survival05:
Keeping Advent (2A Monday): Peace04:
Keeping Advent (2A Sunday): The Art of Naming03:
Keeping Advent (1A Saturday): The Companionable Dark02:
Keeping Advent (1A Friday): Oh Light01:
Keeping Advent (1A Thursday): StarsNovember 2016
30:
Keeping Advent (1A Wednesday): The Song of Peace29:
Keeping Advent (1A Tuesday): Of the Empire28:
Keeping Advent (1A Monday): Every Day27:
Keeping Advent (1A Sunday): Wake Awake22:
Thanksgiving: Rejoice and give thanks always20:
Christ the King: What kind of king?13:
26 Pentecost: In the cracks09:
What the cracks revealOctober 2016
10:
21 Pentecost - Doing what is faithful05:
Beautiful Death: FredaSeptember 2016
28:
Doing what we ought27:
Beautiful Death: Adele25:
19 Pentecost: Who is the good news for?19:
18 Pentecost: Everything is replaceable06:
16 Pentecost: How to choose lifeAugust 2016
29:
My Hands, God's Hands22:
14 Pentecost: You are set free08:
12 Pentecost: Look at the starsJuly 2016
25:
10 Pentecost: When prayer is not enough17:
9 Pentecost: Worried and distracted by many thingsJune 2016
28:
It will cost you your life27:
6 Pentecost: An urgent matter23:
Peacemaking is not a publicity stunt14:
Perfect love casts out all fear09:
You have heard it saidMay 2016
30:
2 Pentecost: Close but not too close16:
Pentecost: In any language04:
A matter of Spirit02:
Easter 6: For the healing of the nationsApril 2016
25:
Easter 5: A new spirit11:
Easter 3 - The epilogueMarch 2016
20:
Palm Sunday - Grand intentions18:
Best face forward09:
Spring cleaningFebruary 2016
29:
Lent 3 - About lemons15:
Lent 1 - Wanting nothing, having everything01:
Blurred lines: faith and politicsJanuary 2016
25:
3 Epiphany - It's not about you18:
2 Epiphany: Rich in water and in wine04:
The invisible signal to flyDecember 2015
26:
Christmas Day: Soft Edges08:
The year of ZechariahNovember 2015
26:
Thanksgiving: Give thanks in all circumstances23:
Christ the King: We are not afraid16:
When the stars begin to fall09:
24 Pentecost: Noticing the unnoticedOctober 2015
26:
Reformation Day: A place of freedom19:
21 Pentecost: Pockets full of Thin MintsSeptember 2015
28:
18 Pentecost: The work of Christ is the work of Christ is the work of Christ14:
16 Pentecost: The weary and the exile11:
Toddlers, trains, and toastAugust 2015
31:
14 Pentecost: Bionic heartbeats10:
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 weird20:
8 Pentecost: This inconvenient calling13:
7 Pentecost: Power and empathyJune 2015
21:
4 Pentecost: Why are you afraid?16:
Anointing oil15:
The wrong book01:
On (not) getting it doneMay 2015
31:
Holy Trinity: In the middle of the night26:
Water and Spirit20:
Green miracles19:
Ascension: Trust one another14:
The food that satisfies04:
Easter 5: Love that casts out fearApril 2015
20:
Easter 4: Resurrection of the body16:
Specifically, all of you02:
Maundy Thursday: Candle in the windMarch 2015
29:
Palm Sunday: The back gate19:
Taking up space: The empty space16:
Lent 4 - Into the light12:
Taking up space: The space between11:
Quotable Wednesdays: Toward the light01:
Lent 2 - A future with hopeFebruary 2015
16:
Transfiguration: Changed from glory into glory10:
5 Epiphany: The free gospel for free02:
Taking up space: The ideaJanuary 2015
28:
Quotable Wednesdays: Broken heart27:
Affirmation and caffeination26:
3 Epiphany: Answering the call19:
Seasons12:
Baptism of Our Lord - Torn apartDecember 2014
02:
The patience of our LordNovember 2014
19:
Snow and gratitudeOctober 2014
15:
Quotable Wednesdays: Heavenly comfort14:
Cool Whip cake and resurrection10:
Into the deep08:
Quotable Wednesdays: The power of love07:
Prayer is peeling away the layersSeptember 2014
29:
16 Pentecost: The way things stack up24:
Quotable Wednesdays: The thing with feathers23:
Even pastors have sad days03:
Quotable Wednesdays: I can believeAugust 2014
27:
Quotable Wednesdays: The world is so full25:
Worth more than the worst thing18:
10 Pentecost: Grasping for crumbs07:
Winning. It isn't everything.06:
Quotable Wednesdays: The things that matter04:
A little bit of hopeJuly 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 God22:
Beautiful things17:
By love and for love09:
Quotable Wednesdays: Death and resurrection05:
Stubborn roots02:
Quotable Wednesdays: Expecting revelationJune 2014
30:
Waiting for the last word25:
Quotable Wednesdays: To ask and bless25:
2 Pentecost: Into the dark18:
Quotable Wednesdays: A pervasive quality of sadness17:
Taste and see05:
Beautiful. Touching. Holy.03:
Running a holy (and sweaty) race02:
Something old, something new