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The Road Meets Us Here: Thoughts on the New Year
As 2026 nears, I’m somewhere in the in-between—past the messy parts of this year, but not quite ready to claim clarity about what’s next. And maybe that’s okay: Scripture reminds us that God often leads us into the waiting, into… Continue reading
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Resisting the Political Violence of Herod (and others)
Friends, we will be inundated with the violence of Herod. We already are all the time. It’s around us constantly. It is a story that stands in contrast to the story that we are invited to create, a story that… Continue reading
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Leaving Egypt: A Sermon on Looking Back
Every church has a “back to Egypt” committee. I heard that this week, “every church has a back to Egypt committee.” Right now, that committee is excitedly planning our first full Eucharist together, or working out a coffee hour that… Continue reading
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Be Troubled (by the Spirit)!
We are troubled, and we live in troubled times, and maybe that trouble is the Spirit, moving, shaking, wandering, cracking open our illusions and prejudices, exposing our insides so that new life can burst forth. Continue reading
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Standing in the Pulpit on Christmas Eve
I preached Christmas Eve with a speck of white plaster from our nearly renovated sacristy on the left shoulder of my lovely black dress. The whole time. Which feels perfect for a working, studying, chaplain-interning mother and spouse. The church… Continue reading
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Fear and Resurrection: “The Fear of the Jews” and its Aftermath
A sermon for Easter 2C, “Thomas Sunday,” on Acts 5:27-32 and John 20:19-31. Preached at St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon. Continue reading
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“The Path I Walk, Christ Walks It”
The theologian in me enjoys creative challenges. Like how to craft a cohesive sermon weaving together themes of Celtic spirituality in light of the appointed Sunday readings, with specific focus on Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 and Luke 13:31-35, and with an… Continue reading
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Seeing Power: White Supremacy or Jesus
But the language of hate is so incomplete. Because what’s happening is that the powers that be — and in the United States, the powers that be are white supremacist and anti-black — the powers that be are rising up… Continue reading
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The Glory of Being Fully Human
Sunday of the Transfiguration, August 5, 2018 at St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon. The book: I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown. Continue reading
