Justin Appel

Posted on May 14, 2025

Friends in Christ, Today’s Gospel contains Jesus’ command to love our enemies. We have heard this phrase a lot, but hearing it unpacked feels tremendously challenging. St…

Fr Matthew Reese

Posted on May 13, 2025

“Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.”—Luke 6: 26 Dear friends in Christ, Today’s…

Deacon Leah Sandwell-Weiss

Posted on May 12, 2025

You tyrant, why do you boast of wickedness *against the godly all day long? You plot ruin;your tongue is like a sharpened razor, * O worker…

Fr Robert Hendrickson

Posted on May 11, 2025

Dear Friends in Christ, A quote from CS Lewis has been on my mind lately. As I think about how we navigate our days it’s given…

Mtr Margaret Babcock

Posted on May 10, 2025

The Pharisees and their religion scholars came to his disciples greatly offended. “What is he doing eating and drinking with misfits and ‘sinners’? Jesus heard about…

Douglas Hickey

Posted on May 9, 2025

Brothers and sisters, In our reductive and myopic age, everything gets tossed in a blender and thrust under a microscope. Reality is nothing but physics. Life…

Kelsi Vanada

Posted on May 8, 2025

Dear friends, Dame Julian of Norwich, whose feast we celebrate today, was a medieval anchoress who lived in a cell attached to the Church of St…

Justin Appel

Posted on May 7, 2025

Dear Friends, Today’s lesson from the epistle 1 John contains a beautiful integration of faith and works, that larger topic discussed in multiple letters of St. Paul…

Fr Matthew Reese

Posted on May 6, 2025

“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through…

Deacon Tom Lindell

Posted on May 5, 2025

My Sisters and Brothers, One of many human foibles is the desire/need to be led. At the time Jesus lived, there was a yearning for the…

Fr Robert Hendrickson

Posted on May 4, 2025

Dear Friends in Christ, Someone once said that Confirmation was a Sacrament in search of a theology. This is because Baptism is our full immersion into…

Travis Reese

Posted on May 3, 2025

Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Loving one another, us brothers and sisters, is at the core of today’s reading. In 1 John 3: 11-18 two different…

Justin Appel

Fr Matthew Reese

Deacon Leah Sandwell-Weiss

Fr Robert Hendrickson

Mtr Margaret Babcock

Douglas Hickey

Kelsi Vanada

Justin Appel

Fr Matthew Reese

Deacon Tom Lindell

Fr Robert Hendrickson

Travis Reese

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