July 2025

Forward Today: Praying as Jesus taught us

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 look up Luke 11:1-13 in […]

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Forward Today: It’s all about Christ Jesus

Dear friends in Christ, This coming Sunday’s epistle reading brings us the beginning of St. Paul’s letter to the Colossians. Here’s an excerpt, one of the great highlights in the whole New Testament, if you ask me: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things […]

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Forward Today: The news we need

Dear friends in Christ, I often urge people to pray daily, even when they don’t feel like it. Yesterday, I followed my own advice. I don’t always succeed, but yesterday when it was time for evening prayer, I said my prayers even though I wasn’t feeling it. Having just read the news of the nation […]

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Forward Today: Doing the Lord’s work

Dear friends in Christ, A few weeks ago, my predecessor as Forward Movement’s head, the Rev. Dick Schmidt, reached out to me. He was going to be in town, and he wanted to come by the office with a friend of Forward Movement to meet me and other staff. Mike (pictured here) first got in […]

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