Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   It deserves to be stated often: We are completely and totally not only part of creation, no matter how...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   One of the biggest—and most damaging—tendencies in our society right now is the tendency to divide...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   Happy Labor Day weekend! I hope we all spend it in gratitude for the labor that makes our lives...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   This Sunday we hear from one of my favorite psalms—Psalm 84, which speaks of the joy of standing...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Sunday we will be blessed to have the Rt. Rev. Deon Johnson visit us for his scheduled Episcopal...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Our gospel reading for this week (Mark 4:26-34) depicts Jesus using humble agricultural metaphors to...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Sunday in our gospel reading from Mark, we will hear Jesus and his disciples being accused by the...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost, ending the Easter season and beginning a long season known in the...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Although, as we can’t be reminded enough, Easter is a season that lasts 50 days, there is a notable...

Beloved members of St. Martin’s, Last night, despite being caught in a 45-minute- long traffic jam on the interstate, we were able to...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Sunday’s readings have contained many words of comfort and strength for me in the last few days. We...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, In the epistle we will hear after our Palm Procession this coming Sunday, we will hear St. Paul’s...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Here we are already at the 5 Sunday in Lent. As we head toward the passion story of Christ in the next...

Beloved members of St. Martin’s, We get a pretty weird first reading this Sunday, which is then referenced in our gospel, so there seems...

The Psalm for the 3rd Week in Lent is one of my favorites: Psalm 19, which expresses the way all creation, especially the heavenly bodies...

In the second Sunday in Lent, we again have our first reading from the Book of Genesis from the Torah, and we again are led to consider...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Our first reading this week is from Genesis 9. As chapter 9 begins, the flood has ended, and Noah and...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, In the reading from 2 Corinthians that we will hear this Sunday, we will hear Paul talk about the things...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Our gospel this week features Jesus praying and performing healing miracles. He cures Simon’s...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This last Tuesday, some of us throughout the diocese and all around the country attended the theatrical...