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An after election sermon
It kind of feels like we have stumbled backwards into a political system wherein every election is framed with the direst of stakes,...
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Aug 233 min read
New year, new us
Happy new school year! Your kids and grandkids are back on the school bus, the ones that are home for the summer are almost certainly...
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Aug 132 min read
A new school year!
Every new academic year holds a lot of potential -- not simply new teachers and new classes (and maybe even a new school, but also a...
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Jul 302 min read
Being Discerning
Christ Lutheran, In the Episcopal Church, we have lately been having lots of conversations about discernment: what it is, how to do it,...
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Jul 254 min read
Hoping anyways
Where does hope come from? Where do you get more hope if you don't have any, or if you don't have enough? How do you maintain hope in the...
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Jul 15 min read
Pride Service Reflection - Juls
by juls buyaki part of the beauty of being made in god’s image is that i think the existence of queer people reflects on all that god can...
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Jun 274 min read
Relevant experience: Resurrection
The resurrection is a funny story to be the lynchpin of a religious narrative because it can seem very abstract. How absurd to think and...
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May 247 min read
When the Church doesn't want you, but Bravo TV does
This is the first Sunday of our early summer Pop Culture sermon series. Did you know that? Well now you know that. When I was thinking...
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May 194 min read
The dimension that is the spiritual
One thing you may not know about me is that I was an undergraduate physics major, of all things, in my time at William & Mary. I loved...
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May 54 min read
Friendship makes this harder
Last Saturday evening, about a dozen Mary Wash students were arrested from the UMW campus, charged with trespassing, and taken to the...
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Apr 188 min read
The Good Shepherd and the Sheep
How many of you have adult children who do not go to church? How many of you have grandchildren who you do not know when/if they will...
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Apr 126 min read
On joy, disbelief, wonder, and eating
It is a funny thing about being a modern day young adult that I have dear, dear friends who I have never met. Our culture is increasingly...
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Mar 293 min read
A sermon for Good Friday
The Bible is at the same time 66 different books with authorship that spans centuries and also one continuous story. It spans mythos and...
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Mar 285 min read
Maundy Thursday sermon
In my last parish where I served as youth minister, our Maundy Thursday service took place downstairs in the parish hall -- we ordered a...
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Mar 97 min read
Saying Love less
Christ Lutheran, I feel like I have quite an unpopular opinion -- as a pastor -- and the opinion is this: I think we should talk about...
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Feb 183 min read
The enduring of dissonance
What is it about a baptism that would send Jesus out into the wilderness? What is it about the Spirit that would drive him out into the...
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Feb 77 min read
Our dingy grayness, yours and mine
It amuses me how human beings are kind of spongy, how we soak up a bit of the context and the people around us. Like how you spend a...
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Jan 283 min read
IN THE BEGINNING
I love these readings (Genesis 1, John 1, 1 John 1) for an instructed eucharist service because the through line is obvious. In the...
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Dec 17, 20234 min read
Barbie Dream Creation
Hi Barbie! Today is Gaudete Sunday which means that the official liturgical color is pink. Thank God. Finally, church for girls!!!!!!!...
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Nov 22, 20235 min read
King Josiah's Sunday school class
A good ten years ago, I took a weeklong intensive leadership course at a seminary, it was a course on community organizing. And the man...
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