When Love Shows Up

Friends, at the end of next week, I am heading with a group of wonderful people – most of whom are from Church of the

In order to become a priest, I had to take a course where I worked as a chaplain in a hospital for a summer. I

When I was in high school they made me read The Canterbury Tales. This may have happened to you as well. I was not familiar

About 7 years ago we at the Church of the Redeemer began to commit ourselves to an Episcopal Church initiative called Becoming Beloved Community. Becoming Beloved Community is centered

I would like us to consider Job as a pilgrim. You know the biblical character of Job. He is the one who was very faithful

This episode originally aired and was published on 7/4/2025 Every Christian in America should be suspect. Every single one of us. Every single Christian in

American sailor Joshua Aviles is stationed on the USS Lincoln – the ship that has broken the record for longest time at sea, with a

So my church is going on a pilgrimage to the border of the U.S. and Mexico this Fall and I am going with them. I’ve been doing a lot

There is a profoundly odd story in the Bible about Abraham and Sarah. There is a famine where they are living and they are forced to flee to a

Paul’s relationship to citizenship was complicated. In his heart, he was first and foremost a Jew. But of course the history of our Jewish siblings includes a significant amount of displacement and diaspora, and Paul was born

When God spoke to Abram, Abram was promised a future, a heritage, God’s blessing, and even a purpose: Through Abram, all the world would be blessed.

“Well,” I said very knowingly to someone much older, smarter, and wiser than me, “I just don’t believe we should let our religious beliefs influence