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Healed by the Light of Love

September 6, 2023

Beloved in Christ, One of the soundtracks of my childhood was a constant stream of Norteño music, which is a sort of country-folk style from northern Mexico. It was always playing while my grandmo...

Sing in the Morning, Sing in the Evening

August 29, 2023

Beloved in Christ, I’m excited to be walking through the Gospel of Luke this fall with so many of you. It has been wonderful to see the many different ways faith communities and other groups are ...

Gardening God's Love

August 22, 2023

Beloved in Christ, On Sunday, I made two visitations in the Southeast Mission Area. In the morning, I visited Christ Church in Red Wing, which worships in a glorious historic building close to the ...

Something from Nothing

August 15, 2023

Beloved in Christ, The God of the Jewish and Christian scriptures is a God who creates something from nothing. Not only at the origin of the cosmos, but over and over and over again through history...

To Shine with Love

"You will do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts." —2 Peter 1:19 This past Sunday we celebr...

Incarnate, Together

Beloved in Christ, Next week, I and several members of the diocesan staff will be in residence in Northeast Minnesota for the whole week. I will be making six official visitations to congregations,...

A Power Greater Than Ourselves

Beloved in Christ, My life has been immeasurably enriched by the privilege of having walked closely with a number of people who are in recovery from different forms of addiction. While I have...

Fire in Our Bones

Beloved in Christ, This past Monday, our nation observed Juneteenth, which commemorates news of slavery’s end finally reaching the state of Texas, two and a half years after the Emancipatio...

Sermon for the Ordination of Priests 2023

Download a copy of this sermon here. Recently, I was driving home at the end of a long day. The last thing on the schedule had been a meeting that did not go well. As I drove, my stomach was turnin...

A group of all ages stands on a lawn, under a blue sky, in the sun, and smiles at the camera.

A group of all ages stands on a lawn, under a blue sky, in the sun, and smiles at the camera.

A Buoy for Weary Souls

Beloved in Christ, I’m writing this week from the shores of beautiful Green Lake in western Minnesota, where I’m spending the week with our diocesan youth camp. This is the first time we ...

Good, Very Good

Beloved in Christ, The creation story in Genesis 1, which we heard this past Sunday, is a rich hymn of God's exuberant, generative, creative love, which pours out into the land, the sky, and ...

Incomprehensible and Irrational

Beloved in Christ, This coming Sunday is Trinity Sunday, one of the seven principal feasts of the church year. If you want a good laugh to prepare for it, I recommend this classic take.&...

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