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Church is a generations game
I've spent the last eight years of my career working in age-specific ministries in the church: in middle and high school youth ministry,...
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Nov 4, 20235 min read
The Meek Avengers
Matthew 5:1-12 I play a lot of video games, and my favorite genre of video games are the kinds of video games where a lone hero faces a...
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Nov 4, 20235 min read
The crowd is not correct, just loud
1 Kings 18:17-39 I would actually love to see a show of hands, how many of you knew this story off the top of your heads? I lead bible...
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Oct 22, 20233 min read
Render unto God
A unique problem of 21st century ministry among young adults is that as a priest, as the person who runs The House, I had to figure out...
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Oct 15, 20235 min read
All of creation is our family
Readings: Genesis 1 Canticle of the Sun So God made a farmer Matthew - Lilies of the field Five years ago, I was invited to lead a...
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Oct 6, 20236 min read
Imagination is the work of discipleship
I think that I get pigeonholed sometimes into just the arts&crafts priest, the I just want to sit in camping chairs priest and not do any...
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Sep 27, 20235 min read
We have to be who we say we are
My job as your young adult missioner takes me all over Fredericksburg, into all kinds of wild spaces and into relationship with all kinds...
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Sep 1, 20236 min read
Give it 80% this year
Among the many practices of Ignatian spirituality, is the practice of using one's imagination to place oneself in a story of scripture so...
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Aug 22, 20232 min read
New students move in tomorrow!
I preached a sermon a few weeks ago at Trinity Episcopal Church about how all summer long I felt like Jesus on the mountain by himself --...
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Aug 10, 20235 min read
Welcome is an act of faith
In our Gospel reading last week, Jesus headed off for some introvert time, he literally got into a boat and paddled out in the middle of...
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Aug 8, 20232 min read
We shape our gatherings and our gatherings shape us back
In my first year of seminary, I took a class called Intro to Worship, and instead of diving straight into the prayer book, we spent the...
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Aug 5, 20235 min read
Maybe it's not complicated
There is a mode of thinking in some Christian traditions that sets them apart from other Christian traditions, and it has to do with how...
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Jul 25, 20232 min read
The work of welcoming young people
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of giving two workshops at the churchwide event for young people called the Episcopal Youth Event....
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Jul 23, 20233 min read
Sowing wheat among weeds, or sowing nothing at all
As a missioner, it's my work to go out among the weeds of the world and try to plant a little bit of wheat. Some priests have a church...
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Jun 21, 20234 min read
The human propensity to forsake
Our young adult bible study has met just about every Wednesday evening for the last almost two years, and in that time, in those dozens...
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Jun 20, 20232 min read
Pride is Christian, haughtiness isn't
This weekend is pride weekend in Fredericksburg, which means Old Mill Park and downtown will fill up on Saturday morning and afternoon...
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Jun 8, 20234 min read
It's either hope or nothing
To be quite honest, this wildfire smoke this week has really thrown me off. I lived in Berkeley California through the worst of the...
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May 30, 20232 min read
Pentecost in the specifics
This weekend the Church celebrated the day of Pentecost, and at The House we celebrated by having church in our backyard for the first...
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May 28, 20234 min read
This Church we build
Happy Pentecost! Pentecost is a fun day for the church because it is celebrated as the Church's birthday, and it holds an interesting...
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May 5, 20236 min read
When belief is complicated, but love is not
As part of a seminary education to become a priest, we all were required to take a preaching class (and thank God for it!). And in the...
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