To watch, please click here. When my family lived in Connecticut and the kids were much smaller, we spent a lot of time enjoying the local hiking trails. One sunny spring day, the kids and I were out walking on the trails when the kids noticed a tiny bright orange translucent newt in the middle
Holiness is for Everyone
Keep Doing What We’re Doing | The Annual Appeal
To watch, please click here. There is a church in Rome called San Paolo fuori le Mura… Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls. I had never been there before this pilgrimage, and I was not prepared for what I experienced. It is where the bones of the apostle Paul are buried. As I knelt there gazing
The Alignment Problem
To watch, please click here. By the time I had passed through college, then graduate school for an MBA and seminary for a master of divinity, I was pretty good at school. A’s were part of my identity. Not because I was the smartest kid in the class, but because I had mastered studying for
Our Sound Goes Out Into All The Lands: The Chapel Bell
To watch, please click here. “No man is an island unto himself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” Anglican priest and poet, John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London where the Epiphany choir has sung, wrote these words in 1624 while in bed getting over a
The Particular Reveals the Universal Love of God
To watch the sermon click here. You can imagine how complicated it is for me to stand before you, Epiphany, a community where every single person is welcome, no matter who they are, where they come from or what they believe; and together hear Jesus instructing his apostles: “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter
The Lord Needs Them
To watch the sermon click here. “The Lord needs them.” (Matthew 21:3) The Lord needs… We don’t usually think about God needing anything. We think about people having needs, not God. I experienced this last week when my very independent 12-year-old came down with the flu and pneumonia. He’s fine now, but for a couple
A Place of Stability
To watch the sermon click here. Each year, when we gather for our annual meeting it is a chance to pause. To breathe. To look back with gratitude at what has happened here. And, then, to look forward with clarity about who we are, who we are becoming, and why it matters. This moment is
Christianity at the Center
To watch the sermon click here. Have you ever found yourself in one of those conversations, maybe at a dinner party, maybe with a colleague, maybe with a family member, or a dude on a plane… where they are a little hostile toward Christianity? They say something like, “Christianity is so violent. Look at the
When Heaven Touches Earth
To watch the sermon click here. One of my best friends in seminary was a guy named Patrick who grew up in small town Mississippi. Patrick is loud, charismatic, and always funny, especially when telling stories about his childhood. He had lots of good stories, but the best ones were about his grandmother. I don’t
