"If you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap...

Dear Incarnation, Sunday was the one-year anniversary of my ordination to the diaconate and the six-month anniversary of my ordination to...

This past Sunday was Juneteenth, as Grant prayed about so movingly during his prayers of the people. Juneteenth remembers the day in 1865...

Dear Incarnation, "But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience." Romans 8:25 We are entering a season of the...

Dear friends, Wow, that was a Pentecost for the books! The different languages spoken and sung...the children's exuberant...

On Sunday we celebrated the ascension of Jesus. We sang and prayed and proclaimed that Jesus has toppled the powers of sin and death in...

He shall judge between the nations and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears...

Last week, my letter talked about how joy often coexists with grief. When I wrote that, I was imagining facing our first Sunday without...

One of my favorite novels is Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry, and my worn copy is full of margin notes (I'm rough on my books; conclude...

When they had gone ashore, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that...

The final part of my 'History of Incarnation' to date.... 2022 dawns There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy...

Dear friends This painting takes my breath away. The indignation of the priests; the contrast of the trial of Jesus and the worship of...

Curious, courteous and compassionate Simon took these pictures in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul a few years ago Dear friends, This coming...

Part 5 of a 6 part series on Incarnation's early years! Dear friends We're almost up-to-date! But last year too had it's ups and downs......

This is part 4 of an occasional six part series filled with some of Liz and friends’ incomplete and gentle reminiscing about the early...

This is part 3 of a six part series filled with some of Liz and friends’ incomplete and meandering reminiscing about the start of...

This is part 2 of a six part series filled with some of Liz's incomplete and gentle reminiscing about the start of Incarnation! 2018...

Dear friends: It’s always tough to know where to start a story, hence the (endless?) Star Wars prequels… but, as I am oh so aware that...

Guided by the Spirit, Simeon came into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him what was customary...

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” John 2:5 Dear friends Last Sunday was such a very gentle day - our worship...