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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 13, 20232 min read


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...
Nov 4, 20233 min read


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 28, 20233 min read


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 21, 20232 min read


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 18, 20232 min read


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 9, 20233 min read


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 8, 20232 min read


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....
Oct 7, 20232 min read


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 30, 20233 min read


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 29, 20232 min read


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 25, 20232 min read


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 23, 20232 min read


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 16, 20232 min read


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 9, 20232 min read


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...
Sep 2, 20233 min read


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...
Aug 5, 20233 min read


Rector's Reflection: Proof, April 15, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, I’ve always found the story of Thomas, which we will hear as the gospel this weekend, to be...
Apr 15, 20232 min read


Rector's Reflection: A New Fire, April 8, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, Do you remember a time when things seemed the very darkest, when a crisis was upon you that...
Apr 8, 20232 min read


Rector's Reflection: The Strength to Love, January 14, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin's. It has long been my habit to spend some time prior to each remembrance of the Rev. Dr....
Jan 14, 20233 min read


Rector's Reflections: Great Expectations, December 10, 2022
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, The Christian liturgical calendar has two seasons of preparation: Advent and Lent. In the...
Dec 10, 20222 min read
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