Fr. Manny

Trail

Walking the trail around Lake Elkhorn, or any other trail, can be a fantastic learning moment. Lots of life lessons abound by simply bein...

Circus

Today I am going to share a story from Katherine Hepburn, the famous U.S actress from the 1930's. This is her story: Once when I was a te...

Thank You, Father Manny!

This month, we celebrate Father Manny's three-year anniversary as Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, and we want to thank him for his lov...

The Delete Key

I did not have the benefit of the use of a typewriter or computer for college. All schoolwork and exams were handwritten. Grad school was...

Marigold

Their friendship was birthed at a Christ Church auction over a decade ago when they were bidding against each other over two paintings. T...

Mangoes

I feel like talking about mangoes this week. Not because they are my favorite; they are not. But I do love mangoes, and whenever I find m...

1992

The year was 1992. Two friends. An agreement. It was a sealed by a handshake, but thrived on integrity - that was how it used to be. A si...

Good Trouble

"...get in good trouble, necessary trouble," tweeted Civil Rights icon John Lewis. John passed away last week after sharing 80 good years...

Be Who God Wants

The past several months has been excruciatingly painful. Many of you have had to deal with one sad story or another. You look through you...

Take Care Of The Light

Last week I shared with you my excitement and thoughts about the new Spiritual Life Commission theme: BE God’s Light That Shines In The D...

Be God's Light...

A few days ago, members of the Spiritual Life Commission (SLC) met to discuss our parish theme for the coming year. The SLC is an importa...

Sanitized History

History has always been a favorite subject of mine. When I was in high school, if I wasn’t talking about English Literature, I would be t...

Father Manny's Sermon for Father's Day

Please take a few minutes to read Father Manny's Sermon for today. Heavenly Father, I surrender to you every aspect of my mind, my will a...

I Cringe

Like many of you, I have been wondering about all that is going on in our country. For good reason, I have greatly limited the time I spe...

Collect, Readings & Livestream for June 14, 2020

Today is the Second Sunday of Pentecost. The service leaflet for today is here. Readings for today: Exodus 19:2-8a Psalm 100 Romans 5:1-8...

Re-Gathering at Christ Church

This coming Sunday - June 14, 2020 - will mark the beginning of our return to worship at our beautiful Christ Church. Over the past sever...

Intellectual Humility

The gift of knowing that you might be wrong - this is a tough one. How can the idea of knowing that we might be wrong be a gift? As many ...

A Fly In A Margarita

It was first a text message about a sermon I preached on Pentecost Sunday, back in 2004. I honestly don’t remember the words of the sermo...

Yellow Daffodils

For the past several weeks, I have been hosting Virtual Coffee Hours on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, and on some Sundays after worshi...

Job's Objectified Body

"You are as young as the faith you have, or as old as your own doubts. I choose to be young..."

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