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God's Subversion of Loneliness

Beloved in Christ, Loneliness is killing us. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently issued a report that called loneliness as deadly to our health and well-being as smoking. We live in an...

Being One

Beloved in Christ, The gospel for this coming Sunday, from John 17, is part of what is known as Jesus' high priestly prayer. On the night before he dies, Jesus has given his disciples instruc...

Meeting Jesus Along the Road

Beloved in Christ, Our gospel lesson from this past Sunday, which tells the story of two disciples meeting Jesus along the road to Emmaus in Luke 24, is no doubt one of the richest and m...

Playing a Part in God's Story

Beloved in Christ, I'm spending today and tomorrow morning with the students, faculty, and staff at Shattuck-Saint Mary's School in Faribault. I don't get to spend a lot of time with our two ...

Light Up the World

Beloved in Christ, Alleluia, Christ is risen! It was my delight and exceeding joy to see so many wonderful pictures of our collective Easter celebrations over the weekend. My own obs...

Small Gestures of Love

"After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake . . ." ...

Flooding the Depths

Beloved in Christ, In the magnificent preface to his book, Faith and Violence, Thomas Merton recounts a story from Rabbi Baal Shem Tov. Two men travel through a forest, one is drunk and the ot...

Where Is Your Baptism?

Beloved in Christ, This Friday is the Feast of Annunciation, when we remember the angel Gabriel’s encounter with Mary announcing she would give birth to the long-awaited Messiah. While it i...

Easter, Even Now

Beloved in Christ, I’m traveling back to Minnesota today after spending the past seven days on retreat with the House of Bishops at Camp McDowell, Alabama. Last week, we visited the Legacy Museum...

Practice Showing Up

Beloved in Christ, Over the next three Sundays in Lent, our gospel readings are from John. They are all long, winding passages, full of contrast and paradox: blindness and sight, darkness and...

Showing Up Honestly

February 28, 2023

Beloved in Christ, On Sunday evening, I attended the Lenten hymn sing hosted by St John’s in Onigum. For many, many years, our Ojibwe congregations have gathered every Sunday evening in Len...

Dust to Dust

February 22, 2023

Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Beloved in Christ, I recently came across this article about the role of chocolate in both ancient and contemporary Maya...

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