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September 2024

September 24, 2024

What If God Is Not Only in the Peace but Also in the Pain?

I am reminded of a scene from 15, 20 years ago, about a singular story...

September 17, 2024

The Power of Dignity: A Reflection on Jesus’s Teachings

In our house, there is typically one rule I try and employ to my nine...

September 10, 2024

How Can We Live in Hope Amid Uncertainty?

Perhaps like some of you, in the fall, my weekends are filled with soccer. I’m...

September 03, 2024

How do we love our neighbor?

It’s fine to say you love your neighbor as yourself, but what does that actually...

August 2024

August 20, 2024

The Holy Act of Eating and Drinking: A Spiritual Perspective

Have you ever felt desperate for thirst? So hungry for food that you would have...

August 15, 2024

The Complex Legacy of Church Camp Experiences

Can I tell you a short story, dear reader? It's a story of remembering, a...

August 06, 2024

With wild desperation comes one thing: a wild kind of mercy

Have you ever felt so desperate for something, you’d do anything to make desperation go...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

God is here, in this place, with us

It’s that time of year again: it’s time to talk about tomatoes. A year ago,...

July 23, 2024

Even now, hope is still present in the darkest of spaces

It was just another Sunday by all outward accounts: I preached that morning in San...

July 16, 2024

What can we do to bring some hope to a dark world?

As often happens in the summer months, we had family in town this last week....

July 09, 2024

Hearing God’s Word: I got you, Beloved, & I’m proud of you

Last Saturday, I gathered with a few of my neighbors in the backyard. As often...

July 02, 2024

Jesus extends an invitation: Come to me & I will give rest

Things are not always as they seem. A month or so ago, a friend texted...

June 2024

June 25, 2024

In these most ordinary ways, grace fills in the cracks

Yesterday, my day went like this: Make some coffee. Walk the dog. Read a book....

June 18, 2024

This Jesus, this Jesus, this Jesus

Over spring break, my family hopped in the car to drive a couple hours’ south...

June 11, 2024

I am asking…

Questions can be a rather powerful thing, as you may well know. When I was...

March 2024

March 27, 2024

Short Thoughts on Good Friday

“It is finished.” - John 19:30 Jesus spoke these three words before he breathed his...

February 2024

February 29, 2024

How to carry your cross

Here’s a sermon for you, preached on September 3, 2023, at St. Paul’s Episcopal in...

February 08, 2024

Someone is five years old

It's not everyday that you get to celebrate a fifth birthday, but lo and behold,...

January 2024

January 26, 2024

Okay fine, just 8 more books for you

As I whittle down the final words to my next book, Church Camp, I find myself grateful...

December 2023

December 27, 2023

12 books that will find a home in my next book

If you haven't yet heard, this summer I signed a contract with Broadleaf Books for...

December 06, 2023

Is French Footballer Kylian Mbappe Muslim Or Christian?

When a reader recently posed the following question, I knew its answer wouldn't be too...

September 2023

September 15, 2023

Grace Shows Up

Here’s a sermon for you, preached on June 11, 2022, at St. Paul’s Episcopal in...

September 08, 2023

Shaken Up by Grief

Here’s a sermon for you from November 6, 2022, preached at St. Paul’s Episcopal in...

September 01, 2023

Choosing Life

Here’s a sermon for you, preached on February 12, 2023 at St. Paul’s Episcopal in...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

Do we really have to talk about humility right now?

Here's a sermon for you from October 23, 2022, preached at St. Paul's Episcopal in...

June 22, 2023

Could God be getting your attention with a big, fat interruption?

This is a sermon given at St. Paul's Episcopal in San Rafael on March 27,...

June 15, 2023

Can peace be found in the chaos?

Here's another sermon given at St. Paul's Episcopal in San Rafael on May 22, 2023....

June 08, 2023

What is Wisdom saying to you?

This is a short sermon given at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on June 13, 2022....

November 2022

November 04, 2022

When did Christianity become the world’s largest religion?

A question came across my desk the other day: When did Christianity become the world’s...

October 2022

October 25, 2022

A Story of the Underdogs

A sermon from March 13, 2022, given at St. Paul's Episcopal in San Rafael: Sometimes...

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