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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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Apr 3, 20235 min read
Would you rather have a conversation or an enemy
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...
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Mar 28, 20233 min read
Becoming An Adult
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...
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Mar 22, 20236 min read
Top line, bottom line
Back in my previous church in California, during an adult confirmation class, we set up an instructed Eucharist service -- which if...
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Mar 10, 20235 min read
My People, God's People
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...
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Mar 7, 20232 min read
Church is a Work of Imagination
Written for Christ Lutheran Church's weekly newsletter, March 7, 2023. Over the weekend, one of the churches that supports our...
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Feb 19, 20234 min read
Mountaintop Cahoots, Inc.
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...
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Feb 10, 20237 min read
"Yeah no that sounds soo fun :))"
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...
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Jan 21, 20236 min read
A sudden, dramatic shift in priorities
I find myself perpetually astounded at the extent to which we treat the calling of Jesus' disciples as a normal, or even relatable thing....
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Jan 14, 20236 min read
What are you looking for?
In my ministry with young adults and college students, we loveeee a good icebreaker question. It can be hard and weird and awkward to...
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Jan 7, 20237 min read
That which we are baptized into
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...
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Dec 10, 20226 min read
Who takes no offense
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...
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Dec 3, 20225 min read
You brood of vipers!
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...
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Nov 28, 20223 min read
The work and the faith of painting
You might've heard me preach a few Sundays ago about The House -- our Episcopal-Lutheran campus and young adult ministry -- having...
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Nov 19, 20224 min read
The tools of community building
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...
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Nov 10, 20225 min read
The problem of other people
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...
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