On Sunday, my son Malachi will be baptized at my "other" parish (St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery). Born three months before the pandemic, and after some transitions in our family, it has been a long time coming. I could not be more excited. This Sunday is...
This past Tuesday, I went to a worship service at a nearby Episcopal seminary. It was the culmination of a program called “Queer Advent — Anticipating Joy.” Exquisite musical meditations with harp and cello were interspersed with biblical and non-biblical...
While imprisoned at Flossenbürg concentration camp for his role in an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote these words while reflecting in his journal on the season of Advent: “A prison cell like this is a good analogy...
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Last Sunday, I gave the congregation a small window into what happens in the "back of house." That's what I call the area just beyond the door next to the pulpit, from where the choir, clergy and altar party emerge each...
Dear Congregation, I don’t know how you’re feeling, but for me, time seems to be racing and I find it hard to believe we’re at Third Sunday Advent! We’re hearing in our Advent Gospels of John the Baptist urging repentance and preparation, a little gloomy as...