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Easter's Disruptive Invitation

Beloved in Christ, In Matthew’s gospel, Easter arrives as an earthquake. Two women who had been following Jesus arrive at the tomb a few days after they watched their friend brutalized and exec...

Healing, Liberating, World-Saving Joy

Beloved in Christ, In my homily for the three Chrism Masses held this week across the diocese (a traditional Holy Week liturgy where the holy oil, or chrism, used in baptism is consecrated and cl...

Shared Identity

Beloved in Christ, This is a day of extraordinary significance in the history of Christianity. Earlier this morning, Archbishop Sarah Mullally was formally seated in the chair of St. August...

Resurrection Hope

Beloved in Christ, In the gospel lesson appointed for Sunday, Martha comes rushing out to meet Jesus on the road after her brother Lazarus has died. She carries with her the crushing weight...

Seeing Through the Filter

Beloved in Christ, One delusion of modern life is the assumption that it is possible to see the world objectively, and without bias. Our brains take in about eleven million bits of informat...

Practicing Trust and Falling

February 25, 2026

Beloved in Christ, At one point during Bad Bunny’s Superbowl Halftime Show earlier this month, he fell backwards off a tall platform, and was caught in the arms of the dancers below. It w...

What Only God's Power Can Do

February 19, 2026

Beloved in Christ, A few weeks ago, I noticed a particularly gnarly ice dam had formed at one corner of the roof of our house. As any Minnesotan knows, if not caught early, ice dams can be ...

The Long Perspective of God's Power

February 11, 2026

Beloved in Christ, Mount Tabor, the site of Jesus’ Transfiguration in this week’s gospel lesson, rises sharply and dramatically from the plains of the Jezreel Valley in southern Galilee...

Dangerous, Contagious, and Sustaining Hope

February 4, 2026

Beloved in Christ, Fannie Lou Hamer was an important community organizer, women’s rights activist, and leader in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. One night in 1963, she and several other...

Bishop Loya's Sermon at Episcopal Church Vigil January 13th

February 3, 2026

At one point in the grand Holy Spirit riff that is the Book of Acts, after Paul and Silas have whirled through town on one of their preaching tours, some local Christians are brought in front of the R...

One Church in Many Places

January 29, 2026

Beloved in Christ, On Tuesday, I received this public letter from Bishop Paula Clark of Chicago, expressing solidarity and support for all of us here in Minnesota. It is one example of the ...

Follow Me

January 24, 2026

Beloved in Christ,In the gospel lesson for this coming Sunday, Jesus starts to assemble his team, calling his first four disciples. They were all going about business as usual, mending their nets, doi...

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