Writing

Church of the Nativity Fayetteville, GA November 16, 2025 23rd Sunday After Pentecost Watch: Listen: Read: One of the great gifts of the spiritual life is that our stories don’t belong to us alone. Somewhere along the way, usually in a season we never would have chosen, God steps into the narrative, and something shifts. It’s not always that our circumstances change or even the outcome, but something in us does. And that moment becomes part of the story we carry forward, som

Church of the Nativity Fayetteville, GA November 9, 2025 22nd Sunday After Pentecost Job 19:23-27a; Psalm 17:1-9; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17;Luke 20:27-38 Watch: Listen: Read: One of my favorite poems begins: "My God my bright abyss  into which all my longing will not go once more I come to the edge of all I know and believing nothing believe in this:” And the poem ends there, with a colon, so you expect a second stanza, a description of what the poet believes. You are lef

St. Columba's Inverness, CA October 12, 2025 18th Sunday After Pentecost Luke 17:11-19 Listen: Read: It’s good to be back with you. The last time I was here was in July, but this time, my family is with me. My kids are seeing Inverness for the first time, and it feels a little like watching them meet part of my heart. It’s a gift to be among you again, this community that has taught me what faithful presence looks like, what it means to care deeply for one another and for th