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Rector's Reflection: Honest Thomas, April 26, 2025
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  The gospel for the second Sunday of Easter centers on the story of Thomas the Twin, who, logically...
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Rector's Reflection: This is the Night, April 19, 2025
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  Today, for me, two events collide. First today is the 30 anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing. As...
Apr 193 min read


Rector's Reflection: Two Sides of One Messiah , April 12, 2025
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  As a word nerd, I actually have favorite words, usually words that I encountered in a poem or a story....
Apr 123 min read


Rector's Reflection: The Path of Love, April 5, 2025
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  This Sunday’s reading from John’s gospel depicts one of the most intimate depictions of love for...
Apr 52 min read
Rector's Reflection: Lost and Found, March 29, 2025
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  Sometimes, stories are so familiar that we no longer hear them when they appear in front of us. The...
Mar 293 min read
Rector's Reflection: Deliver Us From Shortcuts , March 8, 2025
The Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness , James Tissot Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  Our gospel reading for this weekend, Luke...
Mar 83 min read
Rector's Reflection: Embracing Sacrifice, March 1, 2025
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  This Sunday is the last Sunday before Lent, and that means that we traditionally hear stories of...
Mar 13 min read
Rector's Reflection: Seven (Not So Simple) Rules, February 22, 2025
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Last week in the lectionary, we heard Luke’s version of the Beatitudes, which is notable for its...
Feb 223 min read
Rector's Reflection: Being a Blessing, February 15, 2025
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  The first words that jumped out at me today in our readings for this weekend came from our Psalm,...
Feb 152 min read
Rector's Reflection: Let Down Your Nets, February 8, 2025
Beloved members of St. Martin’s, It is a time of great anxiety and uncertainty. There is no question of that.  Everywhere I go, it seems...
Feb 83 min read
Rector's Reflection: Shelter by the Altar, February 1, 2025
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  In all of our readings this weekend, we hear of focus on holy places and spaces: Malachi is attempting...
Feb 12 min read
Rector's Reflection: One Bread, One Body, January 25, 2025
Beloved People of St. Martin’s,  This Sunday we have a single service beginning at 9 am for our annual meeting, in which we look over...
Jan 254 min read
Rector's Reflection: Living into Our Promises, January 18, 2025
In year C in the lectionary, the readings we will hear this weekend always are heard near the day we honor the life and legacy of the...
Jan 183 min read
Rector's Reflection: Baptized and Claimed , January 11, 2025
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Every year when we encounter this 1 Sunday after Epiphany, which centers on the Baptism of Christ,...
Jan 113 min read
Rector's Reflection: Arise! Shine! RR January 4, 2025, January 4, 2025
First of all, Mother Nature has decided to mess with our Epiphany celebration again, and I am deciding NOW to cancel in person worship...
Jan 42 min read
Rector's Reflection: Pitching a Tent Among Us, December 28, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  This Sunday we will change things up a bit. We will have Morning Prayer with Eucharist. We will also...
Dec 28, 20243 min read
Rector's Reflection: Proclaiming the Greatness of God, December 21, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  This weekend we ae invited to spend time contemplating Mary’s Magnificat , her great prophecy of...
Dec 21, 20242 min read
Rector's Reflection: The Beauty of Advent, November 30, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  I am hoping you all have been having a blessed and relaxing Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving was ...
Nov 30, 20242 min read
Rector's Reflection: RR A Song of Hope in a Weary Throat, November 16, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s  This weekend our readings will begin with the story of Hannah, the mother of Samuel, one of the great...
Nov 16, 20241 min read
Rector's Reflection: The Life of St. Martin, Brick by Brick, November 8, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,  This coming Sunday, we will celebrate our patronal feast for St. Martin of Tours, whose actual feast...
Nov 8, 20242 min read
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