Aug 27, 2025
Dear friends in Christ, I was talking with a few people recently about the challenge of finding a discipline of prayer that works for us. In this frenetic world, it can seem impossible to find time to pray. I’m sympathetic, but we need to make it work if we are serious about following Jesus. The […]
Aug 20, 2025
Dear friends in Christ, As you receive this, I am beginning a brief vacation. Seeing the world is a great joy of mine, and I find time away from work to be refreshing and even essential. We who follow Jesus would do well to notice how he rested in his earthly ministry. He kept the weekly sabbath, […]
Aug 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 mission. It’s tempting to view […]
Aug 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 be kindled and pass from […]
Aug 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 leadership, as summer ends, we […]