Category: Pastors’ Letters

Below this letter, you will see the poem/prayer by the French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, theologian, philosopher, and teacher, Teilhard de Chardin. It is a prayer I return to time …

In a world where there is so little that is constant, I typically take scales of measurement for granted. A cup of milk is a cup of milk. 10 pounds …

A few years ago, I preached a sermon on liminality—occupying a position at, or on both sides of a boundary, balancing what is with what is to come. In reformed …

I love questions. Questions open us up, cause us to search and look deeper or wider than perhaps we would normally turn our gaze. They turn up the soil, they …

One of the things that has always struck me about the resurrection of Jesus is just how much the Risen Christ had changed. Whenever people encountered Jesus after he had …

During the month of March, Pastors Heather, BJ, and I will be preaching on the theme of “Being Human.” There’s an old saying that says, “To err is human. To …

I’ve never been one of those people whose has a word for the year, but this year, I feel like a word was given to me: WONDER. I’m sensing an …

“What’s new?” We sometimes greet someone we haven’t seen in awhile with this greeting, an open invitation to catch up on life’s details that have marked the passing of recent …

If you didn’t already know, you may have suspected that I spent the first, almost 50 years of my life worshipping, being shaped by, and formed in Baptist theology and …

In November 2007, I preached my “Candidating Sermon” on Christ the King Sunday, and waited anxiously with my family in the Library while the congregation voted to call me as …