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16 Feb 2025
6th Sunday after EpiphanyFebruary 16, 2025Luke 6.17-26 I confess this morning that…I’m tired. I mean, you know all know me, so you know, generally, I’m always sleepy. No matter what time the alarm goes off, if someone asks how I am in the morning, I’m going to say, I’m tired. But that’s not what I mean. I am achingly, bone-deep, down to a cellular level tired. I am tired of constantly feeling as though we are living through moments of…
09 Feb 2025
5th Sunday after EpiphanyFebruary 9, 2025Isaiah 6.1-13 Life in the country, particularly life in the country of the Midwest, comes with certain requisites. Cornfields aren’t scary, they’re just your backyard. It is not necessarily surprising if you look out and see a neighbor’s animal wandering around your yard. I grew up with our neighbor’s pheasants annoying our dogs incessantly, and now my mom has a rooster next door. You measure things in time not miles, and anything under an hour…
02 Feb 2025
Presentation of Our LordFebruary 2, 2025Luke 2.22-40 Life with a teenage nephew that you don’t see everyday is a lesson in the mind-bending weirdness of time. I feel like every time I see Felix lately, something is different, and this has been going on for about the last year or so. I will never forget rolling into their house for his birthday last year and having him turn the corner of the hall and go, “Hi,” then promptly see my…
26 Jan 2025
3rd Sunday after EpiphanyJanuary 26, 20251 Corinthians 12.12-31a If you’ve been on social media in the last week or watched GMA or Today you have probably heard something about this whole Onyx Storm thing. It was a book released this past Tuesday, which has been highly, passionately anticipated by flocks and flocks of fantasy readers. It’s the third book in a series that is essentially about dragons and their riders. Now trust me, this is going somewhere… I just finished…
19 Jan 2025
2nd Sunday after EpiphanyJanuary 19, 2025John 2.1-11 If I’m being honest, as I’ve gotten older and as I’ve done more conscientious reading about his life, I’ve found myself nervous, and if anything, frustrated by Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Let me be explicitly clear here, not because of him, because let’s be real if there is any human being deserving of a day of honor, respect, and memorial, it’s him. No, I find myself frustrated with what ends up being…
12 Jan 2025
Baptism of Our LordJanuary 12, 2025Luke 3.15-17, 21-22 This past week, my sisters and I and our book club went to New York City to see Our Town. We had read a book last summer that heavily featured the play and so we jumped at the opportunity to see it live, even while knowing that we weren’t exactly signing up for the most upbeat of evenings in the city. This is where I give the requisite spoiler alert for a…
05 Jan 2025
EpiphanyJanuary 5, 2025Matthew 2.1-12 So we’re going to give a shout out to the history nerds amongst us this morning by spending a little time with the worst and allegedly mad monarchs of all time. Let’s start with some of the obvious—Caligula. You may know some facts about him, but did you know that he banned the mention of goats in his presence and attempted to get his horse elected to a position on his council. Ivan the Terrible of…
24 Dec 2024
Christmas EveDecember 24, 2024Luke 2.1-20 “The best thing about church is that there are no Herdmans.” Now, if you’ve seen or read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, you know exactly what that sentence means. If you haven’t, you have no clue what I’m talking about. For years, Carol has been aiming to get me to read this book, and while I still haven’t, I did finally see the movie this year, and in that moment I finally understood why she…
22 Dec 2024
4th Sunday of Advent December 22, 2024 Luke 1.39-55 This morning we’re going to jump into the way back machine and take you back to everyone’s favorite time in life, 10th grade. Specifically, I’m going to take you back to my 10th grade English class with Mr. Miller. Now, before we get into the story, this all has to come with one massive caveat. Mr. Miller never should have been allowed to keep teaching, he was a terrible teacher, and…
15 Dec 2024
3rd Sunday of AdventDecember 15, 2024Luke 3.7-18 When I lived in Pennsylvania, I ended up becoming pretty good friends with the girl who cut my hair. My usually introverted self wouldn’t dread the hour in the chair trying to small talk because Jordan and I just had a nice, easy flow to conversation. There was one time I came in and she was veritably vibrating with excitement. “I have a new obsession!” I was so immensely curious what this could possibly…
24 Nov 2024
Christ the KingNovember 24, 2024Revelation 1.4b-8 As we enter into the week of the turkey, let me share with you the story of my family’s most memorable and ill-fated Thanksgivings, a Thanksgiving to go down in history. It was somewhere in the early 2000’s when Jon and Kristin decided that they were at a serious enough point in their relationship that they were going to start sharing holidays—thus came the first Thanksgiving where she was in upstate New York and…
17 Nov 2024
26th Sunday after PentecostNovember 17, 2024Mark 13.1-8 I wish I came here this morning with a happy, warm and fuzzy story from our time in Costa Rica, like the little guy whose mom brought him in to see us a year after our docs saved his one week old life from meningitis last year, but that isn’t the story that has been holding my heart. No…the moment that still plays over and over in my brain is the mom who…