Posts from February 2024

[Note: Today’s guest blogger is Kateri Boucher. Kateri grew up in the Spiritus community, where she loved attending church and goofing off in youth group. She now lives in Detroit, Michigan (Waawiiyatanong). She is the Ministries Coordinator at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and a remote Masters of Divinity Student at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.] In today’s gospel passage, Jesus tells a story about a rich man and a poor beggar named Lazarus who slept outside the rich…

I remember being in an anti-racism workshop many years ago as the facilitator was speaking about “white flight” from urban areas and the creation of suburbs across the United States. The facilitator was reflecting on how, in general, by creating these homogenous enclaves, white people were demonstrating their belief that their lives would lose nothing by not having people of color around.  That line was a gut punch because down deep I knew that it was true. In the book…

The prophet Isaiah counsels us to "set things right," and Jesus embodies this in his being a humble servant.

Historically, sin was understood as a more collective reality rather than a privatized experience. In our togetherness we fall and rise.

The book of Deuteronomy tells us that we all have an 'agreement with God" and that God has one with us. How to discern and honor that agreemement?

Jesus invites his followers into a deeper relationship with God and others by challenging traditional standards of righteousness.

Peter was a person full of contraditctions, and yet Jesus gave him the "keys" to the kingdom. This is good news for all.

Jesus tells the people that no sign will be given them but the "sign of Jonah." What, then, is the story of Jonah trying to teach us?

Words matter. What we say - out loud and in our heads to ourselves - have an energy that shapes the world around us.

In today's gospel, Jesus tells a story where God identifies with the "least" in the world and says whatever we do for them is what we do for God.

In our Sunday readings, we hear of God’s covenant with Noah after the flood and then read about Jesus being “driven” into the desert by the Spirit – to develop his own covenant with God. Lent offers us a time to reflect on our own covenant with God and to let ourselves be “driven” into an inner desert where we face whatever separates us from God. In today’s reflections, guest blogger Maud McInerney offers us an original poem that emerged…