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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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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 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 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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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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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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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 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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Oct 7, 20226 min read
Healing, Being Healed
Luke 17:11-19 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers...
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Sep 9, 20226 min read
Finding the Lost, and Losing the Found
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have a really weird job. Not weird bad, weird great, but weird complicated. My role is many...
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Sep 3, 20227 min read
Those of you who do not give up everything
Why,,, would Jesus say this. Why. Like, why. I don't want to hate my family -- I quite like my family and it feels so opposite from what...
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Aug 20, 20227 min read
Sermon | There are six days on which work ought to be done
Well Christ Lutheran Church, somehow suddenly it is the start of another school year and frankly I have not a clue where the summer went....
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Jul 23, 20226 min read
Sermon | Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.
Something that I know about myself is that I am not really all that hardy of a person – I keep my AC set on 69 and if it squeaks up to 72...
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Apr 25, 20225 min read
A Journey of (Un)Belief
I remember being eight years old -- it was wild to be eight years old and think back on all the things you knew and didn't know -- well I...
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Apr 2, 20226 min read
Week 5: God's Word
Every Wednesday evening at 8:30pm, without fail, after I close Zoom, I open the little Twitter app on my phone and I tweet: "not to be...
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Feb 4, 20224 min read
From now on, you'll be fishing for people
I think we take for granted just how different the shape of Jesus' ministry was from our own. He was itinerant, traveling from town to...
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