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God's Irrational Love

September 6, 2022

Beloved in Christ, In the gospel lesson appointed for this coming Sunday (Luke 15:1-10), the religious authorities are grumbling about the kind of company Jesus is keeping. "This fellow welco...

Announcing a Missioner Transition

August 17, 2022

Beloved in Christ, I am writing to share the news that the Very Reverend Susan Daughtry, Dean of Formation, has accepted a call to be the Rector of Saints Luke and James in Minneapolis. Her last da...

A soaring cathedral filled with sunlight; hundreds of bishops pray together.

A soaring cathedral filled with sunlight; hundreds of bishops pray together.

An Update from Lambeth

Beloved in Christ, Today is the seventh of twelve days Melissa and I are spending at the Lambeth Conference of bishops in Canterbury, England. The Lambeth Conference has met every ten years (...

The Power to Turn Around

Beloved in Christ, Melissa and I have just finished a week-long pilgrimage to the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney in Scotland. You can read more about our time here in this story from Epi...

A Word About the Lambeth Conference

Beloved in Christ, Melissa and I are currently in the UK and will be heading to Canterbury, England, tomorrow to attend the Lambeth Conference of bishops, where around 650 bishops and 400 spouses, ...

Priestly Ordination 6.18.22

Priestly Ordination 6.18.22

We Are

Beloved in Christ, If you are reading this, you're probably involved with it enough to know that the Episcopal Church is a massively inefficient organization. Our system is complex, our administrat...

We Are Never Alone

Beloved in Christ, I am writing this as I travel back to Minnesota from Baltimore after the 80th General Convention of the Episcopal Church. COVID precautions reduced the length from eight da...

Our True Citizenship

Beloved in Christ, Many years ago, I attended a concert in a university chapel. An Orthodox priest sat behind me, and I overheard him react with amazement to his companions that there was an ...

The Immovable Resistance of Love

Beloved in Christ, Rowan Williams’ book, Christ on Trial, has long been a source of enormous comfort in times of great pain or challenge in my life. I first read it many years ago and ...

Remembering, Repenting, Repairing

Beloved in Christ, I will confess that I have never given much thought to national holidays. Like most Americans, I appreciate when they give me a day off, and I'm happy to enjoy many of the ...

A Sermon for the Ordination of Priests

“When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.” I want to start this morning with two saints. Marilyn McCord ...

Incarnating Our Shared Identity

Beloved in Christ, This summer is a busy one for the Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion. General Convention, the highest governing authority in the church, which meets every th...

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