A house divided cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln used these words in 1858 to address the increasingly problematic issue of slavery in the...

About 40 years ago when I was newly ordained, a disheveled young man arrived at my office door. He wanted to tell me his theology. He...

After the fall of the Jerusalem Temple in AD 70, Judaism had to reimagine and in a sense reinvent itself as its center had suddenly...

This Sunday the Church will observe the last Sunday of Epiphany. It has been a season of manifestations of Jesus’ power to heal and cast...

“In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.” Mark 1:35 Where do you...

He taught as one having authority. We certainly have a lot of ambivalence about authority. It has all too often been used to dominate...

Sometimes we need a new pair of glasses or at least it is helpful to lose the ones we have. Not because the old glasses aren’t working,...

Our lessons this week are about people receiving a call from God. This call comes in ways that cause initial confusion or awe, but also...

This week the Church observed the Feast of the Epiphany.  This is usually associated with the Wise Men or Magi from the East who follow a...

We can all agree, it’s a new year. We know this because the calendar tells us so. As we agree on this simple truth, by fiat, we make it...

Comfort ye my people! You can hear the music from Handel’s Messiah mediate these words. We read these words in our reading from Isaiah...

Dear Friends and Parishioners, Returning to live services this fall has been a wonderful sign of hope. These services have been...

On a weekend of national celebration, the church begins a new liturgical year. As we are still in the midst of giving thanks for life,...

As winter approaches, the night creeps in earlier and earlier.  It seems an apt metaphor for the fear which seems to be gripping our...

All of us have been on pins and needles as we have participated in the great American exercise in democracy.  What has become clear is...

This Sunday the Church celebrates our patronal feast, All Saints Day. The Gospel reading this year, as every year comes from the part of...

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus....

So tell us teacher, is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar?  This text has been used to justify nearly every political position over the...

It is hard living in this world of pandemic and politics. It’s true that there is Netflix and novels to distract us, but we can’t help...

Voila! We did it! That’s one small prayer for All Saints, one giant prayer for the universe! Ok, maybe it wasn’t that momentous, but it...