Happy belated 4th of July, Incarnation! For many years, we lived within walking distance of the Air Force Memorial (and before that, the...

Dear Incarnation, We're fully into summer rhythms at Incarnation! This is a season when we slow down, rest, play, and enjoy the many good...

Dear friends, Monday was Juneteenth, which remembers the day in 1865 when troops finally brought the news of emancipation to the remote...

Dear Incarnation, On Sunday, we heard God's call to "mercy, not sacrifice" on the lips of Hosea and Jesus. As I mentioned in my sermon,...

Dear Incarnation, What did you think of our first Sunday at Drew? I'd love to hear your first impressions, tweaks, and feedback. HUGE...

Dear Incarnation, What a beautiful Pentecost! The languages, the paper airplanes, the children's voices, the insightful words that were...

Dear friends, Happy almost-Pentecost! This is one of my favorite feasts of the Christian year. I love looking out over a sea of red...

Dear Incarnation, Wow, I LOVED Rogation Sunday! I was so moved by the procession of items so thoughtfully representing your labors, and...

Dear friends, This Sunday is the 6th Sunday of the Easter season, also known as Rogation Sunday. "Rogation" comes from the Latin verb...

Dear friends, Last Sunday was Good Shepherd Sunday. I loved the setlist Eva-Elizabeth put together (listen on Spotify), and the chorus of...

Dear friends, I love the Emmaus story. It feels closer to my own conversion story than anything else in scripture, because I walked down...

Dear Incarnation, I love this image of a redheaded Jesus with butterflies in his wounds and a bird as the Holy Spirit (red hair! nature!...

Dear friends, Wow. That was an Easter for the books! To quote Ginny Foran: "This Sunday was spectacular, wild, and really a joy." From...

Dear friends, Palm Sunday was SUCH a joy! Thank you for waving palms and singing and thoroughly confusing the neighbors with such...

Dear friends, Many of you know that last month, my daughter and other Incarnation teens were on lockdown at Wakefield High School while...

Dear Incarnation, How are the Sunday post-sermon silences going for you? What are you noticing so far? Do you tense up and wait for the...

Dear friends, In case you missed last week's letter, I wrote with permission to set down your fasts and lift up your eyes, looking for...

Dear friends, How is your Lent going? I am loving the changes to our Sunday liturgy . . . the Decalogue (subplot: the sung response was...

Dear Incarnation, Our vestry warden, Nancy Sung, likes to talk about Sunday "subplots," all those invisible storylines that are woven...

Blessing the Dust For Ash Wednesday All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn your face toward the...