Emily Lyons
Dear friends, This past Sunday afternoon, I put on my raincoat and took a long walk in the rain. A mile or so later, the gentle…
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Dcn Tom Lindell
My brothers and sisters, We have just been through the conjunction of Halloween deemed “thin or liminal space” by Celtic pagans who celebrated the beginning of death in nature, All…
Fr Robert Hendrickson
Dear Friends in Christ, We’re marking All Saints Sunday today. It is also our pledge ingathering Sunday. I’ve always thought it appropriate that ingathering and All…
Mtr Mary Trainor
Lead kindly light…* Dear friend, “Light,” or symbols of light, seem to be popping up all around me these days. It’s been my experience that things…
Justin Appel
Dear Friends, Today’s morning Gospel lesson centers around St. John the Baptist, who sent his own disciples to Jesus to ask “Are you the one who…
Fr Matthew Reese
“When [Jesus] was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, ‘Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not…
Dcn Tom Lindell
My brothers and sisters, What good fortune as today’s Eucharistic lectionary offers the classic parable of the Good Samaritan. Interestingly, this passage from Luke has no…
Fr Robert Hendrickson
Dear Friends in Christ, One of the truths of life, I think, is that how we treat those who can’t repay us is a reflection on…
Mtr Mary Trainor
If it was easy, anyone could do it. Dear friend, I remember quite clearly the first time I heard that phrase. It was uttered by an…
Jordan Paul
We put up such high and impenetrable walls around our souls to keep bad things out, but in doing so we may unintentionally deny the goodness…
Shirin McArthur
One Sabbath, while Jesus was going through some grain fields, his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. —Luke…
Justin Appel
Dear Friends, When hardships and storms arise in life—as they inevitably will for us all—few texts can express the existential crisis quite like the Psalms. Take…