This week our story dwells on the Magi. Now, I know that the tradition of the church has the Magi show up after the birth, but let’s face...

This Sunday, I will not be telling you a story, as I have the past couple of weeks. No, it is not because the last one was too long—as...

Sometimes as clergy, I feel that I live in a bit of a bubble. Perhaps your Facebook feed this time of year is filled with holiday...

Now, on to more appropriate conversations in this holiday season, like…the crucifixion! Bet you didn’t see that one coming! That is...

We are finally at the end! After all this time, we have finally arrived—the end of Stewardship season! What, did you think I was talking...

83 feet. That is how much water was above my head yesterday morning—83 feet. As I sat there at the very bottom of the Blue Hole in Santa...

Last week, as I was in Taos for my pastor’s retreat, I was exposed to something new and powerful. Matthew Miller, the pastor at First...

What is it that you are grateful for? What causes you to give thanks? Those are some big important questions that we will be dealing with...

So when is the last time that you commanded a mulberry tree to get up and be replanted in the sea? Apparently, Jesus tells us in the...

Hope is a tricky thing. On the one hand it is the very heart of what moves us, what makes us tick, what keeps us going. However, hope...

Let’s talk about Pharisees for a minute. We love to demonize them. They are the bad guys who Jesus went up against. We just love it when...

Many people are uncomfortable with the words of the prophets, as many times those words are filled with wrath and threat. The passage...

This week health has been on my mind. On the one hand, we have a scripture that deals with Jesus healing a woman who was “bent over.”...

I have spent a lot of time this week thinking about conflict. The scripture passage this week has Jesus telling us that he didn’t come to...

Are there any grammar hounds among you? Anyone who just loves to correct others when they misspell “their,” or “they’re,” or “there?”...

As many of you know, this week, I was in Colorado with my pastor’s group, the “Mountaineers,” for a week of study leave. For the last...

I am really getting tired of having to address the violence and fear in our culture in these reflections. Yesterday, there was yet...

I had a pretty powerful moment this week that I wanted to share with you. I don’t know about you, but after coming off of vacation this...

As for the reflection, this Sunday has an extremely interesting passage (Luke 8:26-39)—the Gerasene Demoniac. There are so many...

What an exciting Sunday we have in store! Not only will we be blessed to have David Campbell reflecting on how his time in the foreign...