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God, Come Down

Beloved in Christ, Yesterday morning I wept as I gathered with Healing Our City’s virtual prayer tent and listened to Imam Rami Nashahibi reflect on the tender, motherly, inexhaustible ...

Alleluia! Christ is Risen!

One of my favorite children’s books is “Beyond the Pond,” by Joseph Kuefler. It tells the story of a young boy who is facing the universal childhood problem of being bored. He has a very ordinar...

Joining the Procession of Love

Beloved in Christ, On Palm Sunday, two processions entered the holy city of Jerusalem. From the west, Pontius Pilate was coming with all the pomp, pageantry, and military might of the world’s mos...

Love in the Right Hand, Fear in the Left

Beloved in Christ, There is a deep cut on Bruce Springsteen’s 1987 album “Tunnel of Love” called “Cautious Man,” which tells the story of the speaker’s struggle to stick with the discip...

Where Do We Find Jesus?

Beloved in Christ, The church has left the building. That’s a phrase I have often heard over the past year, as all of us have had our normal ways of gathering for worship disrupted and w...

Meeting God in the Wilderness

February 23, 2021

Beloved in Christ, As we begin another Lent together, many have noted how strange it is to begin this season when we feel like last year’s Lent never really ended. We have spent the past year fas...

Hold On, Dear Ones

February 16, 2021

Beloved in Christ, Currently, COVID positivity rates in most parts of the state are below 5%, which means that faith communities in many parts of our diocese are able to resume some form of in-pers...

What Does Love Look Like?

February 9, 2021

Beloved in Christ, Last week, I added my signature to this open letter asking Governor Walz to stop construction on the Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline. As many of you know, I have also attended...

Celebrating 20 Years of Ministry!

February 2, 2021

Beloved in Christ, Yesterday, our Missioner for Ministry, Canon Karen Olson, celebrated the twentieth anniversary of her time with the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. That’s a truly extraordinary ...

The Holy Spirit at Work

January 26, 2021

Beloved in Christ, The electing convention for the tenth Bishop of Minnesota took place one year ago yesterday. I found myself getting surprisingly emotional yesterday. Part of that is about how mu...

Love is the Way

January 19, 2021

Beloved in Christ, Last week, as our nation reeled from the events at the Capitol, I encouraged you to hold fast to prayer. This week, as we approach the inauguration of our next president amid inc...

The Power of Prayer

January 12, 2021

Beloved in Christ, Yesterday, during a regular House of Bishops webinar, our Presiding Bishop closed his reflections on this challenging moment in our nation with a forceful admonition: “Never un...

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