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Jukebox Trinity
Each week Trinity creates a beautiful soundtrack to our Sunday worship experience. This is a collection of music that has been performed and shared during our Sunday worship service, or during our Trinity@Home Online Worship services. The music shared has been...
How Can We Keep From Singing
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...
The Immeasurable Gifts of Martin Luther King Jr.
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...
Chalking of the Church Door for the New Year
Since the Middle Ages there has been a tradition that on (or near) the feast of the Epiphany we pray for God’s blessing on our homes, marking the entrance with chalk (an incarnational image reminding us of the dust of the earth from which we were made). We mark the...
Considering the Choices in our Lives
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...
Happy New Year!
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,...
Next To New Ministry Update
Click HERE to provide your email address to receive updates, news and invitations to be part of the next steps in revisioning the Next To New Ministry. December 31, 2022 An important message to the Trinity community- I write to you today as the Manager of our resale...
Merry Christmas!
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...
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi: As we worship, So we believe, So we live
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....
Midweek Noonday Prayer
We will take a break from midweek prayer through the holiday season and resume sometime in January.
Sacredness at Home
Hello, friends! What is sacred space? And how is sacred space created? We began our Wednesday night Advent workshop last week on Creating Sacred Space at Home reflecting on these questions. At the core...
Trusting God’s Timing
Beloved friends- Many years ago, in the LGBTQI community, the word “outing” became common nomenclature as the word describing what happens when someone (usually without permission) decided to reveal the sexual orientation of another person. It happened to...
Halfway
Beloved friends- Advent Greetings! One week into this special season of waiting and watching and wondering and Sunday will mark our halfway mark as we travel towards the Feast of the Nativity culminating in the story of Jesus’ birth. A couple years ago I received a...
Ebb and Flow
Hello, my dear friends! As we begin the season of Advent, I find myself reflecting on spiritual practices that have been particularly sustaining for me, especially over the past few years. And how when I lean into some of them now, I am finding that I experience them...
Thanksgiving Day Message
Beloved Friends-Happy Thanksgiving!As we sit at our various tables in perhaps still smaller gatherings than we would prefer for the second year in a row, may we still remember to say a prayer of thanksgiving for who and how we are learning to live together as a...
Imaginal Cells
Beloved Friends, Today, as we near the end of our 2021 Pledge Drive, I am thinking about “imaginal cells” as a powerful metaphor describing who we are called to be as a loving, liberating, life-giving community of faith. Imaginal cells are the ones responsible for...
Let’s Get Radical
Hello, my friends! For the past few weeks, we’ve together reflected on the importance of prayer language as we explored our relationship with money and how in new seasons of our lives, God invites us to make new...
New Seasons, New Commitments
Hello, my friends. Last week I reflected with you on my “ah-ha” moment and some of the questions that have helped me to better understand my relationship to money. This week I want to reflect on my understanding of stewardship...