Second Sunday after Epiphany, Year C

It is sometimes, if not typically, the case with a biblical text that one can draw multiple points from it that we can learn from and which shape our understanding of our faith. This is especially the case with our Gospel reading for today, of Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding at Cana. […]

Baptism of Our Lord, Year C

The story of Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan river by John the Baptist is, complicated. I feel like that’s true about a lot of things that we read in the New Testament. It’s complicated, because there’s a great deal which is unclear to us about why things happened the way they did. But here it […]

Second Sunday After Christmas, Year C

About a week ago, Ashley and I were together, watching Netflix, when a silver alert came through on our phones. The alert was for an unfortunate man who had wandered from home and was missing. The tone for the alert though, was startling, terrifying even. It was like a home break-in alarm going off or […]

First Sunday After Christmas, Year C

There’s a poem that has been particularly meaningful to me over the past several years in our celebration of Christmas. Or, rather, as we move past our celebration of Christmas together. It was first brought to my attention in a message shared by our Presiding Bishop, Michael Curry, and has stuck with me ever since.  […]

Christmas Eve / Christmas Day, Year C

A life of humility and hardship.  That’s the impression that we get from the Scriptures of the life of Christ, that from the very beginning, this is the kind of life that he was to lead. From the first to the last, the circumstances that he faced would not be easy and luxurious, but would […]