A scene from the shadow puppet theater at our shared Incarnation-Holy Comforter Easter Vigil Dear Incarnation, It was wonderful to worship together on Sunday, and I’m so grateful for the beautiful weather for our rescheduled parish meeting! Thank you to everyone who helped us quickly reset the sanctuary and set up the playground with the all-important sound system, coffee, and snacks. You all are the best! On Sunday night, I headed over to Holy Comforter for their parish meet

Il Buon Pastore (The Good Shepherd), Arturo Martini, 1925 (Italy). I took a photo of this sculpture at the Vatican Museum last summer because I loved the shepherd's happy expression! Dear Incarnation, My sermon on Sunday was on the instructions for relating to governing authorities in 1 Peter 2:13-25; a challenging passage, and a difficult one to preach the morning after yet another act of political violence. I’ve gotten a LOT of responses to that sermon, and I appreciate all

We gave TJ LOTS of baptism experience this winter! Dear Incarnation, I was sad to reschedule our parish meeting on Sunday, although it wouldn’t be Incarnation if we weren’t flexing around something unexpected! I wanted to share one of the updates from that meeting in this week’s letter. You might recall that at our parish meeting a year ago, we announced that TJ Ono would be serving at Incarnation as a deacon. Every deacon needs a church in which to serve, and our bishop had

Comic #10 in a 30-day series on the resurrection by Madeleine Jubilee Saito. See the entire series on her site here . Happy Easter, friends! Easter is a whole season, not just a single day, 50 days (longer than Lent!) of celebrating the resurrection and all that it means for our lives. Jesus' resurrection shows us that God's salvation of the world is happening through the material world, not in spite of it; through our human bodies, not in spite of them. One simple way to c