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October 2022

October 21, 2022

Receive mercy. Find grace.

A sermon from October 10, 2021, given at St. Paul's Episcopal in San Rafael: Good...

September 2022

September 16, 2022

Going Back to Church

This Sunday, if you didn't know, is National Back to Church Sunday. Popularized by an...

August 2022

August 10, 2022

The Things We Treasure

This is a sermon from July 31, 2022, given at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in...

July 2022

July 13, 2022

Can Christians Curse?

Well, if this is not the best question to come across my desk, I don't...

July 11, 2022

Who Created God?

Today's questions comes straight from the mouth of babes, which is to say that my...

July 07, 2022

Should Christians Listen to Secular Music?

There's only one CD I ever regret putting in the Goodwill pile: TLC's CrazySexyCool. It was...

July 05, 2022

Why Can’t Christians do Yoga?

This last week, the following question came across my desk: "Why can't Christians do yoga?"...

July 02, 2022

Can Christians have Multiple Wives?

When today's question came across my desk, I just smiled. I'm just as obsessed with...

July 01, 2022

Can Christians be Depressed?

Another question came my way: "Can Christians be depressed?" I read the words and shook...

June 2022

June 30, 2022

Can Christians Meditate?

A couple of days ago, the following question came across my desk: “Can Christians meditate?”...

June 29, 2022

Stay Here

Enjoy this sermon from this last Sunday at St. Paul’s San Rafael, a local Episcopal church. Key texts:...

May 2022

May 02, 2022

Wait a second …wait?

A series of old sermons continues. This particular sermon marked the first Sunday of my...

April 2022

April 26, 2022

More Conversations of Identity, Alongside John the Baptist’s Head

Bringing you some oldies but goodies ...homilies that were written and delivered, but never actually made...

April 22, 2022

Anger, Rumbling Around in my Belly

I felt it rumbling around inside my belly again this week, the news of each...

April 18, 2022

Trader Joe’s, Sabbath, and Identity, Of Course

The homilies continue! As always, if you want to catch the video recording, head over...

April 16, 2022

Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing

It's Holy Saturday! As we are on the cusp of Easter, I give you a...

April 14, 2022

Conjunction Junction and the “And” of God

Today's post is going to require a little bit of jazzy singing on your part...

April 12, 2022

Tripped Up to See God

An Advent sermon in the middle of Holy Week? So it happens. I've got a...

November 2021

November 28, 2021

All that Shouting, in the News & in Scripture Too

Hi there! I trust you and yours had a splendid, restful time of Thanksgiving. Here's...

November 20, 2021

Confidence, Bravery, & Showing Up, Just As We Are

Friends! It's been awhile ...but it's good to be back with you, in this space again....

May 2021

May 18, 2021

God-Haunted Waiting Rooms

There's a couple of sentences my friend Marlena has in her book, The Way Up...

April 2021

April 26, 2021

Write the Light

You know how when you get something new, learn something new or become something new,...

April 20, 2021

Reminder: “You’re not a Doing. You’re a Being.”

A funny thing happened on the way to the school the other day: I began...

March 2021

March 16, 2021

A Story of Race, Revisited

There's a scene I write about in my book, when my father-in-law and I visited...

March 09, 2021

Where does God meet you?

It's always an honor to get to preach the Good News! This last weekend I got...

March 03, 2021

Theotropic Enigmas, All Around Us

My friend Christopher says that each and every human is a theotropic enigma - theotropic...

January 2021

January 25, 2021

The Time and the Invitation is Now

Perhaps like preachers across America, I couldn't help but point folks towards inaugural poet Amanda Gorman's prophetic...

January 21, 2021

How I Read, A Lot

With the new year comes new reading intentions, and if you're anything like me, you've...

December 2020

December 21, 2020

A Psalm for our Yearning-for-Light-in-Darkness Selves

A couple of days ago, I sat staring at Psalm 90. Really, I needed to...

December 07, 2020

Some Thoughts on Rejection

A couple of weeks ago I got a rejection, or shall I say, yet another...

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