A few days ago, members of the Spiritual Life Commission - a group of parishioners who work on the Advent Retreat, Lenten Quiet Day, the...

Welcome to Christ Church! Welcome to the beginning of another year! Welcome to the beauty that shapes our lives, our world, and the path...

Over the past several years, I have been in conversation with Virginia Theological Seminary about the possibility of assigning a...

A few days ago, I had the unique honor of officiating the wedding of a young couple. The wedding was beautiful, as beautiful as the...

This is the mop-up stage. The drama is concluded. Those who have been on the drama from the beginning - Creation, Fall, Israel, and...

A man who was derided by his people. Condemned to death. Crucified. Raised from the dead. A man who was not understood by those who came...

God called Abram from the Ur of the Chaldeans and asked him to travel west to a place and land that God would show him. Abram gathered...

The next big thing is the Fall . I have thought about why the use of that phrase. I think the phrase is interesting because it tells of...

For those of us who love drama or the theater, plays always have parts in them, and those parts follow a particular sequence. Every drama...

At our last Center for Spiritual Nourishment gathering, I talked about Holy Disruption under the broader subject of love and the cross. I...

I don’t remember the last time I had a serious wound, but if I look at my legs, I see marks of wounds that I have carried with me since...

We can be hard on ourselves - most people, in fact, are hard on themselves, and those people take the gift of self-evaluation very...

Last week, I wrote about sharing additional thoughts on the recent Youth Sunday sermon given by our graduating youth members. One part of...

I don’t remember the last time I had Skittles, but a few days ago, someone gave me a sachet of Skittles. The person who gave it to me...

To educate our passions is to be human enough to be kind. And kindness in itself, like faith, is a mystery. The fact that we cannot...

To take any particular step of faith is to feel empowered by something larger than yourself, something bigger than who you are; it is to...

He said, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” So, they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in,...

One of the challenging aspects of all our lives is the ability to let go or the grace to let go, especially when traumatic experiences...

There’s always this confrontation with the eternal question, "Why should it be this way?" or, "Why is something (whatever it is) the way...

I knew two of my grandparents as a kid. I grew up in my maternal grandfather’s house - that was where my mother lived, as well. I don’t...

One of my many blessings here at Christ Church is the gift of hearing other parishioners tell their stories of a transforming faith....

I ended last week’s piece with the therapeutic nature of being woke. The opposite of being woke is being indifferent, and as far as I can...