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It’s complicated.
The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday The image above is a popular iconographic depcition of the Holy Trinity, interpreting the three angelic visitors received by Abraham and Sarah as a representation of the Trinity. You can see many different versions of this image online: I googled it for you.…
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Remember the Point
Pentecost (Whitsunday), Year A—May 5, 2026 The lectionary is a choose-your-own adventure today. By way of explaining the enormous list above: It’s the custom in Easter for the first reading to be from Acts; the usual pattern for Sunday readings is (1) Hebrew Scriptures; (2) Psalm; (3) Epistle; and (4)…
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Borrowing Light
A poem for the latter part of Lent Recently published in Earth & Altar. Go give them some traffic—there’s a lot of great stuff to read in addition to the poetry. When I was in grad school, I worked as a verger at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. The cathedral proper…
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This thing has feathers. (pinned post)
Yeah, yeah, I misquoted Dickinson. (She wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers,” not “Hope’s the thing…” But this is a meme I made a while back that isn’t really a meme because it’s not meming, but it does seem, unfortunately, to be evergreen: Feel free to use it if…
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The First Sunday of Advent
Year A – November 30, 2025 Note: I am beginning a series of blogging on the Sunday Eucharistic lectionary—the Revised Common Lectionary as used in the Episcopal Church—paired with artwork. This project has its origins in bulletins I used to make for St. Andrew’s Church, Livonia, although I wrote much…
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The Lord is risen indeed!
Alleluia! Something truly unprecedented has happened. God has become human: fully human and fully divine. I don’t know what that means, exactly. It’s unprecedented. Then, this God-man died. Men—well, people of all genders, and also all living things—die all the time. But God? It’s unprecedented. Now he’s back. And honestly?…
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Hopelessness and Holy Saturday
God is dead. This year in particular, many of us don’t have to really stretch to put ourselves in the mindset of the profound hopelessness Jesus’ follwers must have been feeling the day after Jesus died. There was nothing to do but mourn, except maybe to hide just in case…
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A hill I would probably die on
Did God abandon Jesus on the cross? My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? This saying of Jesus on the cross is referred to as his “cry of dereliction.” Dereliction, of course, means abandonment. Many Christians rightly find deep consolation in this: Jesus felt God-forsaken, as we often…
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Some unpolished thoughts on Maundy Thursday
Ideally, I’d have written this post yesterday and posted it early today; but I’m late. On the plus side, I can share what I heard in tonight’s gospel lection while I was at church. Here’s the part that struck me: And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father had given…
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Whose is the kingdom, the power, and the glory?
Holy Week is here again: that annual liturgical reminder of the horrors humans are capable of. We tame it—make it about the provision of a meek and mute divine sacrificial victim to atone for our personal sins. It’s such a familiar story. Our hymnals automatically flip themselves open to “All…
The Sound 