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Beloved Friends- What a glorious week it has been. But before I say anymore, take a moment and soak in these words by poet and environmental activist Wendell Berry: Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep,Holds them to their...

Beloved friends, From a very early age Taylor knew there was something different about our family, and it never seemed to bother her. About this time of year from 1st grade on, she would come home telling a version of the same story- over the years becoming more and...

Beloved Friends, We are in the heart of the season of Eastertide- the 50 days between Easter and Pentecost. It is the season following the resurrection and prior to the ascension when we are reminded of the mystery of welcoming the risen Christ- the new and not...

Beloved Friends- Christ is Risen- They are Risen indeed! Oh how glorious it was to gather for both Trinity@Home and then Trinity@316 last Sunday for our Feast of the Resurrection- aka Easter Sunday! Both services ushered in the love and excitement we collectively felt...

Beloved Saints, We are now in the “thick of it” in short; the “Triduum,” marking the final days Jesus traveled with us here on earth. Yesterday we gathered for our Maundy Thursday Agape Meal- the first time we have eaten together in over 2 years; today is Good Friday...

Beloved Friends, We are starting to turn the liturgical corner and move from Lent into Holy Week this Sunday. This will be our final week with Jesus marking the last days he traveled with us here on earth. This year we enter this sacred and holy church season amidst a...

Beloved Friends- Over the course of these remaining Fridays of Lent leading up to Holy Week I am going to offer a series of prayers for you to use during the week in any way that feels “good.” As you know we have been thinking and talking Goodness as our Lenten theme...

Beloved Friends-Over the course of these remaining Fridays of Lent leading up to Holy Week I am going to offer a series of prayers for you to use during the week in any way that feels “good.” As you know we have been thinking and talking Goodness as our Lenten theme...

Beloved Friends-Over the course of these remaining Fridays of Lent leading up to Holy Week I am going to offer a series of prayers for you to use during the week in any way that feels “good.” As you know we have been thinking and talking Goodness as our Lenten theme...

Beloved Friends- It has now been a week since we “re-re-gathered” for our in-person worship (Trinity@316), and wow, does that feel good after such a long-extended season of being apart. I am also so grateful to all the people and effort that continues to go into...

Beloved Friends- Welcome to our Lenten journey. Lent is our season in the church that began two days ago on Ash Wednesday, leads us over the course of a 40-day pilgrimage of sorts, takes us to Holy Week and then, eventually, to the celebration at the empty tomb on...

Beloved Friends- Sunday will mark two moments of mystery and grace in the life of our church calendar as we mark the end of our journey through the season of Epiphany and celebrate the wonder of the story of the Transfiguration. As we turn listen to the words of the...

Beloved Friends- In less than two weeks we will begin another season of Lent. Lent has been described as a 40-day wilderness journey in which we are invited to engage in the serious spiritual practices of fasting, almsgiving and prayer. It is also a church season that...

Beloved Friends- Sunday we will celebrate the Feast Day of Absalom Jones. Absalom Jones was born enslaved to Abraham Wynkoop a wealthy Anglican planter in 1746 in Delaware. He would go on to be an abolitionist and clergyman who, due to his passion for the gospel and...

Beloved Friends, Taped to the inside page of my monthly planner is a tattered piece of paper with these words from Methodist pastor Ted Loder: Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting,in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise...

Beloved Friends- This Sunday, immediately following our 10:00 Trinity@Home on-line service we we will gather virtually (again) to celebrate the year we have just ended as well as look forward with hope and gratitude to what lies ahead. Here are the words I used to...