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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...

The Light of Epiphany

January 4, 2021

Beloved in Christ, "The glory of the Lord has shone upon us, and shall ever be manifest among us, until the day of his return." This is the opening sentence of the Epiphany proclamation, an anci...

The Great Light

December 22, 2020

Beloved in Christ, When I was a child, the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas meant that my grandmother would make dozens of tamales, a traditional Mexican dish of meat and spices wrapped in ...

Reflecting Light into the Darkness

December 15, 2020

Beloved in Christ, This morning, Melissa’s uncle, who is a nurse In Lincoln, Nebraska, posted a picture of himself receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. It caught me up short with joy and gratitude....

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