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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...

The Very Heart of God

Beloved in Christ, This past Saturday, around thirty leaders from our multi-cultural and culturally specific faith communities gathered for an afternoon of prayer, conversation, dreaming, and disce...

A Wild, Ecstatic Moment

Beloved in Christ, We had some intense winds here in the metro area overnight on Monday, and a lot of us were dragging on Tuesday after a bad night of sleep. Having grown up on the prairies and the...

Do You Want to Be Well?

Beloved in Christ, George Floyd was murdered on the streets of Minneapolis two years ago today. As a bishop whose ministry began in its immediate aftermath, as a global protest movement was surging...

Love for God's Sake

Beloved in Christ, Bernard of Clairvaux was a twelfth century monk who framed the spiritual life as four degrees of love we progress through on the path toward emotional and spiritual maturity. The...

Pushing the Boundaries, Pulling Us Closer

Beloved in Christ, One of the many small, great things about being Bishop of Minnesota is that I sit on the board of the Minnesota Council of Churches. This afternoon, I attended my first in-p...

The Holy Spirit Stirring

Beloved in Christ, This past weekend, between the diocesan confirmation service at St. Mark’s Cathedral and my Sunday visitation, I confirmed or received around eighty people from ten different f...

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