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Waking up from the Net of our Complacency
How many of you out there are sports fans? So there’s this strange phenomenon that happens in sports where you’ve got a stellar team, the...
Church of the Incarnation
Jan 21, 20244 min read


Our Lives and our Churches do not Belong to Us
What a curious exchange between Nathaniel and Jesus: having been called to leave his house by one of Jesus’s first followers, Philip, to...
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Jan 14, 20244 min read


A Funeral Homily
When I was a kid, one of the questions I always had was: what does a meaningful or full life look like? I first asked this when I was 10....
Church of the Incarnation
Jan 12, 20244 min read


The Only Gift God Desires
Our Scripture readings this morning present us with a pretty clear message: when God comes to rescue his people, those who recognize him...
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Jan 7, 20245 min read


Lettest Thou Thy Servant Depart in Peace
This Friday I went to visit Mary, to pray with her and take her the Lord’s body and blood. And as I placed the broken and tiny pieces -...
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Dec 31, 20234 min read


That God, in Jesus Christ, became one of us
Like most of you, I was taught and conditioned to see everything through the lens that insisted on a particular narrative: that power,...
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Dec 24, 20234 min read


Advent 4: To be made one through the Womb of Adoption
When I first read 2 Samuel where God asks about the house to be built for him, but then says, “Moreover the LORD declares to you that the...
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Dec 24, 20235 min read


Advent 3: When things are falling apart and won't get better
What would you say is the greatest barrier to Christians fulfilling the Great Commission to go out and share the Good News that Jesus...
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Dec 17, 20235 min read


Advent 2: Calamities that burn away self-righteous chaff
I want to share with you an entry from my journal during Advent one year while I was working on my PhD. I was serving in a parish, a...
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Dec 10, 20234 min read


Advent 1: Waiting is not being passive. It is courageous acts of enduring hope
When I was about six years old we spent Christmas at my grandparent’s house. I was NOT happy. I had a pretty strict routine for Christmas...
Church of the Incarnation
Dec 3, 20234 min read
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