August 13, 2025
Dear friends in Christ, I’m writing this week’s email from Camp Allen, the camp & conference center of the Diocese of Texas. This week I’m attending a gathering of church leaders from all over, focused how we can share resources as a church so that we can carry out God’s...
August 6, 2025
Dear friends in Christ, I was recently re-reading Forward Movement’s first publication from 1935. On the last page, there’s a powerful prayer “For Zeal.” Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ came to cast fire upon the earth, grant that by the prayers of Thy faithful people a fire of burning zeal may...
August 4, 2025
“What’s your goal?” Derek Olsen asks in the beginning of his guide to the Prayer Book, Inwardly Digest. If an athlete plans her workout routine to build up strength for a big competition, Olsen suggests, our spiritual practices should be approached with the same intentionality. In the “sport” of parish...
July 23, 2025
Dear friends in Christ, This coming Sunday, the lectionary gives us the gift of Jesus teaching his disciples the Lord’s Prayer. Sometimes when I pray this prayer, it occurs to me that I’m saying a prayer that Jesus himself taught, and it knocks me over. I invite you to go...
