Greetings Pilgrims! In our 5 days in West Virginia for the service trip there was, ahem, a lot of talking. (....At times perhaps too much?) …
Read MoreGreetings Pilgrims, Did you know that our fabulous new sound system is currently being installed?…
Read MoreHi Pilgrims, How many of you turned around last Sunday and looked up?….
Read MoreGreetings Pilgrims! Be generous with me and I’ll live a full life; not for a minute will I take my eyes off your road….
Read MoreHi Pilgrims, Well, I am finding my way back into the rhythm of the church-week after my immersive IAF training in New York….
Read MoreHi Pilgrims, I am in Queens, New York as I write this letter to you….
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Read MoreHi Pilgrims, In a sweet, spot-on article about ‘aging with joy’ from Anne Lamott, she referenced this poem by Wendell Berry….
Read MoreHi Pilgrims, As we close out June and turn ourselves to the middle summer month of July, I echo a walking partner’s exclaim, “where did the month of June go?”….
Read MoreHi Pilgrims, Grateful to be back with you after a week in sweltering Orlando :) …
Read MoreHi Pilgrims, Thank you for your grace in allowing me each June to honor the week that surrounds Lanny’s death date….
Read MoreGreetings Pilgrims, It's June! …
Read MoreGreetings Pilgrims, This week began more family-intensive than usual….
Read MoreGreetings Pilgrims, My week took a turn when my beloved and elderly dog Luna re-injured her leg on Memorial Day as she was startled by another canine as we exited the house for an evening constitutional….
Read MoreHappy Graduation to those Pilgrims who are taking (or have taken) this important step in their educational journey….
Read MoreOn May 19, in Durham Central Park, Pilgrims joined with members of 10 congregations who are part of the Mount Level Community Partnership For Racial Justice to celebrate Pentecost in worship…..
Read MoreHappy Pentecost Pilgrims… Sunday is our Pentecost celebration and one of the life lessons I learned with my previous ministry setting was the dance between theological meaning and church praxis….
Read MoreWe cannot merely pray to you, O God, to end war;….
Read MoreHi Pilgrims… We are in for some pretty dense Sundays in the weeks to come–theologically, ecclesiologically, liturgically….
Read MoreGreetings Pilgrims, A recent daily meditation from Episcopal priest and educator Alice Updike Scannell (found via Richard Rohr of course :)) spoke to me, as they often do, and made me think of the number of serious health issues many Pilgrim families are facing…
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