Nicole Walters

Vision, Responsibility, and the Narrow Way of Living as a Peacemaker This week, I struggled over what to preach. Like many clergy, I found myself caught between the urgency of what is unfolding in our nation and the particular texts the lectionary placed before us. The headlines felt relentless. The suffering felt close and overwhelming.  And I wondered quietly and persistently whether words spoken from a pulpit could matter in a moment like this, or whether silence might feel safer. What...

Something here Sermon: The Spirit Given for the Sake of the World The past year, and especially the past weeks, have felt heavy for many of us. Our common life has been marked by anxiety, anger, grief, and deep division. Communities and families feel strained. Even when we avoid the headlines, we carry the weight of it in our bodies and relationships. Many are asking where God is in all of this, and what faith looks like when the world feels so fractured. The Christian tradition has never...

I ended 2025 as I have ended nearly every year for the last decade, save the two Decembers we lived in Bangladesh, at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit. The place itself has become part of my prayer. The towering white concrete columns rise like sentinels of silence. The wooden beams stretch overhead, an ark, a cradle, holding me. Blue and purple light spills through stained glass, and Mary and Jesus look back at me from the rose window, steady and familiar witnesses to this liminal space...