Rector's Reflection: January 6, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Today, January 6, is the official Feast of the Epiphany. Epiphany, meaning “manifestation” or...
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- Dec 30, 2023
- 2 min
Rector's Reflection: New Beginnings, December 30, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Here we are bumping up against the end of a calendar year, and the start of another. 2024 stretches...
- Dec 23, 2023
- 2 min
Rector's Reflection: Partners and Participants, with God’s Help, December 23, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This weekend we have a flurry of activity here at St. Martin’s. On Saturday at 505pm and Sunday morning...
- Nov 18, 2023
- 2 min
Rector's Reflection: Talent Show, November 18, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, All great stories, all great adventures, are centered around a question, as Matt Linton notes. In To...
- Nov 13, 2023
- 2 min
Rector's Reflection: St. Martin’s Day and Veterans Day , November 11, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Today we celebrate Veterans’ Day. But it is also the feast day of our parish’s patron saint, St. Martin....
- Nov 4, 2023
- 3 min
Rector's Reflection: Great Expectations, November 4, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This weekend we will observe the transferred Feast of All Saints and All Souls. This weekend also begins...
- Oct 28, 2023
- 3 min
Rector's Reflection: Love Is The Miracle, October 28, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, One of my favorite books and movies of all time is The Princess Bride. I love its blend of, as one...
- Oct 21, 2023
- 2 min
Rector's Reflection: Allegiance and Belonging, October 21, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, In our gospel reading this Sunday, Jesus continues to be questioned about matters of authority, and even...
- Oct 18, 2023
- 2 min
Rooted in Abundance: Gathering In, A Reflection for Week 4, October 18, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This time of year, even if you are a city dweller, thoughts turn to the change of seasons, and to the...
- Oct 9, 2023
- 3 min
Rooted In Abundance: Rooted in Resilience, a Reflection for Week 3
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, We do not think of trees as newsworthy, perhaps because they are organisms that are rooted in place....
- Oct 8, 2023
- 2 min
Rector's Reflection: More Than the Grasses of the Field, October 7, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, This Saturday, on October 7we call all animal lovers to gather at 4 pm to commemorate the...
- Oct 7, 2023
- 2 min
Rector’s Reflection: More Than the Grasses in the Field, October 7 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Saturday, on October 7, we call all animal lovers to gather at 4 pm to commemorate the Feast of St....
- Sep 30, 2023
- 3 min
Rooted in Abundance: Rooted in Community, A Reflection for Week 2
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, In Fishlake National Forest in Utah, in the south-central part of the state, there lives one of the...
- Sep 29, 2023
- 2 min
Rector's Reflection: Making Room for God, September 30, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, In our epistle this weekend, we hear the Apostle Paul describes Jesus as “emptying himself”...
- Sep 25, 2023
- 2 min
Rooted in Abundance: The Smiley Face in the Forest, a Reflection for Week 1
At 2:50 am on September 23, Autumn officially began in the western hemisphere. Most people call this season “Fall” for a very practical...
- Sep 23, 2023
- 2 min
Rector's reflection: The Twist is Grace, September 23, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, This weekend we will hear Jesus’s parable of the workers in the vineyard. Because Jesus’s...
- Sep 16, 2023
- 2 min
Rector's Reflection: Sweet Forgiveness, September 16, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, It certainly seems the lectionary has been speaking straight into our times—and how perfect...
- Sep 9, 2023
- 2 min
Rector's Reflection: Breaking the Cycle of Negative Results, September 9, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, This weekend’s reading from the Hebrew scriptures is from the prophet Ezekiel. Specifically,...
- Sep 2, 2023
- 3 min
Rector's Reflection: The Kindness Conundrum, September 2, 2023
The Kindness Conundrum Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Last week in our epistle from Romans 12:1-8, Paul urged us to offer our bodies as...
- Aug 5, 2023
- 3 min
Rector's Reflection: The Way of Praying, August 5, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, What are your favorite ways to pray, or prayers that you say? The title for this piece is...
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