Dear Friends, Sometimes time it helps to pause, notice, and give thanks. We are coming to the end of Eastertide this Sunday with the celebration of Pentecost on the 50th day of Easter. My first Sunday with you was the Last Sunday after the Epiphany. Today, we have been together for 100 days which included Lent and Eastertide. What a lovely […]

“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” (John 17:25-26).  Dear Friends, […]

Dear Friends, Today is a different kind of Hump Day message because we are coming up on the election of our new Bishop: June 4, 2022. In the coming days: Friday, May 20 – Tuesday, May 24, you have opportunities to meet and hear from the candidates for bishop in person or online. We encourage you to learn about these […]

Dear Friends, Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity (Acts 9:36). This past Sunday, a virus-not-covid kept me from leading worship. As it became clear during the week that I would not recover fast enough and be able to […]

Dear Friends, Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred fifty-three of them; and though there were so many, the net was not torn. (John 21:11) Epiphany Episcopal Church here on Hidden Meadow Lane in Northern Virginia is “the Church on the Corner where God loves you, no exceptions.” […]

Dear Friends, Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the […]

Dear Friends, Alleluia, Christ is Risen!! Happy Easter, Friends, Dear Beloved Ones. The poet Amanda Gorman wrote a New Year’s poem that fits so well for Easter. On this first Wednesday in Eastertide, I offer it to you in celebration of the beautiful day we shared Sunday, Easter Day, and those to follow! May God’s wonder and grace […]

This Wednesday is a long way from Ash Wednesday. From “Marked by Ashes” by Walter Brueggemann(click here to read the full poem) Dear Friends, “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ  (Philippians 1:2).”  These opening words from Paul’s letter to the Philippians is one in a list of sentences of Scripture […]

…Easter us to joy and energy and courage and freedom; Easter us that we may be fearless for your truth. Come here and Easter our Wednesday with mercy and justice and peace and generosity. We pray as we wait for the Risen One who comes soon. from “Marked by Ashes” by Walter Brueggemann(click here to read the full poem) Dear Friends, […]

… we begin this day with that taste of ash in our mouth: of failed hope and broken promises, of forgotten children and frightened women, we ourselves are ashes to ashes, dust to dust; we can taste our mortality as we roll the ash around on our tongues.We are able to ponder our ashness with some confidence, only because our every […]