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On Our Own Terms

Beloved in Christ,The mystery of the Incarnation is that God meets us on our own terms, in all the uniqueness and particularity of our identities. God meets and embraces us as we are, in order to fold...

Be With Jesus, Become Like Jesus, Do As Jesus Did

Beloved in Christ,The church has one purpose and one core task. Our purpose is to join God’s project to heal the world with love. Our core task is to make disciples of Jesus, whom we believe is the ...

Baseball!

Beloved in Christ,Tonight is the annual Episcopal Night at the Minnesota Twins. I look forward to seeing many of you, and enjoying an evening of simply being together as Minnesota Episcopalians. ...

Shed Abroad the Gift of the Spirit

Beloved in Christ,This last Sunday, we celebrated Pentecost, when God’s wild, reckless, uncontainable love set the early church on fire, igniting in the first Christians a singular passion to fold t...

Sowing Small Seeds

Beloved in Christ,Before becoming bishop, one of my roles was serving as the chaplain of a small school in Omaha. I loved everything about it. Teachers and administrators in schools of all kinds work ...

What Shall We Sow?

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” &nbsp...

Guideposts on the Way of Love

Beloved in Christ,Whenever I fly, I engage the spiritual discipline of preparing myself to be maximally inconvenienced. Flights often involve delays. People are anxious, in a hurry, and often rude and...

What Are We For?

Beloved in Christ,Last night, I had a lovely dinner at a new-to-me restaurant. When I sat down, I was relieved to see a very small menu. I tend to find a menu that is several pages long paralyzing and...

Too Good to Be True

Beloved in Christ,This July will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of the first women as priests in the Episcopal Church. Of the eleven women who were ordained in 1974, two years before ...

That God Would Show Us God's Self

“May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer...

Swept Up in the Crazy of Easter

Beloved in Christ, If you find Easter almost impossible to believe, you’re probably doing it right. The foundation of our faith is that a poor rabbi from the middle of nowhere was executed by the...

Chrism Mass Sermon 2024

One of my favorite pictures of our daughter, Mari, was taken when she was just shy of three years old. She is sitting on a chair in our home in Lawrence, Kansas, and there is a giant bowl sitting on h...

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