Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Our readings this weekend speak of being called by God into deeper relationship. In the gospel portion...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, If you really pay attention to the gospel, there inevitably will be a teaching that is especially...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Today, January 6, is the official Feast of the Epiphany. Epiphany, meaning “manifestation” or...

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...

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...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, All great stories, all great adventures, are centered around a question, as Matt Linton notes. In To...

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....

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This weekend we will observe the transferred Feast of All Saints and All Souls. This weekend also begins...

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...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, In our gospel reading this Sunday, Jesus continues to be questioned about matters of authority, and even...

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...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, We do not think of trees as newsworthy, perhaps because they are organisms that are rooted in place....

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...

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....

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...

Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, In our epistle this weekend, we hear the Apostle Paul describes Jesus as “emptying himself”...

At 2:50 am on September 23, Autumn officially began in the western hemisphere. Most people call this season “Fall” for a very practical...

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...

Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, It certainly seems the lectionary has been speaking straight into our times—and how perfect...

Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, This weekend’s reading from the Hebrew scriptures is from the prophet Ezekiel. Specifically,...