"Bridging stories are about the ways in which we turn towards one another...It's a radical kind of listening. It's a listening that refuses to be a part of breaking apart." 

Pentecost Sunday"The question here isn't about how languages are a punishment or a gift, the question is about how we understand our sense of being, our sense of belonging and what truly unifies us."

"A more complex understanding of prayer, a more nuanced understanding of a relationship with God believes that prayer changes us, not God. Prayer is not a technique for getting things from God but for strengthening our relationship with God."

"Love in the way that Jesus intends for is not just a magical supply of kindness and benevolence, but instead it's the power to respond to the hatred of our neighbors with words and actions - the kind of words and actions that call them to be t...

"This can be the way of faith, can't it? Our God has never been crystal clear and mystery free... and that can be uncomfortable."

Youth Sunday 

Easter Sunday sermon

The Passion Narrative, according to Luke

"Grace. it's a short little word... it packs a big theological punch... It's almost impossible for us mere humans to understand... God gives us more of it than we could ever ask or imagine."

"What Christ is asking us to do here is reorient ourselves to him, to God, to move away from the self-justification and into further relationship with him. "

"We have all known anguish, grief, and the desire to lament. And no matter how strange it might feel to shout at or get angry with God, lament is good."

"Think about a time when everything just clicked, when the pieces of the puzzle suddenly fit just right and you saw things more clearly... The transfiguration is that feeling times one thousand. My friends, the transfiguration is inviting us to...

"God remains actively involved and at work in creation... I believe that God works within events and with our choices - the good and the bad, the tidy and the messy, the glorious and the tragic." 

"Simon, who has witnessed Jesus' power firsthand is prepared to trust Jesus even though he doesn't know who exactly Jesus is, but that is about to change."

Anniversary worship service for the 1942 Prayer for Peace 

"You are Christ's own, forever."

"Life's journey can be textured. The multitude of points where God will find us on this journey can be textured too."

The first Sunday after Christmas