Sherry Sterling
Dear friends, Growing up, I liked school and learned how to be good at it. I’m comfortable in the world of ideas. And somehow along the…
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Justin Appel
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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…