Week of January 17

Winter Healing When we were talking about the possibility of putting in my name for St. Clare’s rector search, at one point Myles stopped and sighed: “If we end up there, we’d go through all of California’s fire season, and then get to Michigan just in time for all of...

Epiphany 2 Sermon: Sunday, January 16

Maybe it’s just that I love a good story, but weddings are great, right? They have so much humanity on display: Family drama, overzealous wedding planners, that one weird relative, wardrobe and weather malfunctions- a good wedding usually has a good story to go with...

Epiphany Sermon: Sunday, January 9

I read an article this week about people who make videos on TikTok to show or talk about the weird quality of our memories of early 2020. People reminisce, through songs, or video clips, or just talking about aspects of those early pandemic days- sourdough starters...

Christmas Eve Sermon

A few years ago, I was telling the Godly Play Advent story to a group of children after our Advent festival, where we’d made a bunch of Advent crafts. Some of you might have seen this story, but it involves the kids gathering around on the floor, and the storyteller...

Quiet Christmas Sermon

Welcome Over the last several years, at some point during Advent, I have found myself all of a sudden to be irritable, snappy, angry, exhausted. It surprises me each year, without fail, and then I sort of wake up and remember what’s going on. Oh yeah. It was right...