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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...

Beloved Friends- The words below are from an article I wrote over 15 years ago when I was still a new priest. As I read them today in the context of our worship life together at Trinity- and amidst all the hurdles we have faced coming close to two years now, they make...

4.2.7 Beloved Friends- This coming Monday we will be observing “Martin Luther King Jr. Day.” Since 1986 our country has used this third Monday in January to celebrate and remember the immeasurable gifts of Martin Luther King Jr. and his tireless work as a nonviolent...

Beloved Friends- By the time you read this it will be the day after the Feast of the Epiphany- the day we mark on our church calendars when we commemorate the visit of the magi to the newborn to the Christ Child. It will also be the day after the 1-year anniversary...

Beloved friends, Happy New Year! I pray as we say goodbye to 2021 and welcome 2022, we do so able to let go of all that was with gentleness and look forward to all that is yet to be with hope-filled expectation. This year, rather than focus on New Year’s resolutions,...

Beloved friends, Here we are, kneeling in front of this most exquisite expression of Divine Love- a vulnerable baby, born to unlikely parents in an even more unlikely setting. And yet again, our spiritual narrative leads us to this place and invites us to breathe in...

Beloved friends- Some weeks in ministry, as in life, are just harder than others; this was one of the hard ones. Earlier this week we learned that our beloved curate, Megan Allen made the decision to resign from what we had hoped would be a three-year tenure with us....