This weekend is pride weekend in Fredericksburg, which means Old Mill Park and downtown will fill up on Saturday morning and afternoon...

To be quite honest, this wildfire smoke this week has really thrown me off. I lived in Berkeley California through the worst of the...

This weekend the Church celebrated the day of Pentecost, and at The House we celebrated by having church in our backyard for the first...

Happy Pentecost! Pentecost is a fun day for the church because it is celebrated as the Church's birthday, and it holds an interesting...

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...

I don't know what the experience is of the ELCA writ large or of Christ Lutheran in specific, but there is a stereotype among...

It's easy sometimes for our college students to go tunnel-vision on grades and homework and exams and essays. One bad grade or one tough...

Back in my previous church in California, during an adult confirmation class, we set up an instructed Eucharist service -- which if...

In seminary, I read a book from the 1960s by an Episcopal priest named Gibson Winter, wherein among the many things he says, he says that...

Written for Christ Lutheran Church's weekly newsletter, March 7, 2023. Over the weekend, one of the churches that supports our...

For five or six summers I've served as a chaplain for Episcopal summer camps in California and in Virginia, and it is always a stunning...

I have a terminal case of people pleasing, but my quality of life has been good so far, and then Gen Z came along. It does not matter how...

I find myself perpetually astounded at the extent to which we treat the calling of Jesus' disciples as a normal, or even relatable thing....

In my ministry with young adults and college students, we loveeee a good icebreaker question. It can be hard and weird and awkward to...

Good morning! All Saints, it is so good to be with you this morning. My name is Ethan, I serve as the college and young adult missioner...

Last week I was at Trinity Episcopal Church and I preached a sermon about how deeply unpleasant John the Baptist seemed to be -- not just...

You brood of vipers! Just kidding. That felt bad even to pretend say. Every Advent season, I love it when this passage rolls around from...

You might've heard me preach a few Sundays ago about The House -- our Episcopal-Lutheran campus and young adult ministry -- having...

All semester long we have been in our season of arts&crafts at The House with our college students and young adults. It started as my...

I sat down at my laptop and thought for a while about whether I should try to write my children's sermon first or my pulpit sermon, and I...