Towson, MD
December 24, 2019
Advent, the month or so leading up to Christmas Eve, is a time of getting ready, of preparing. Preparing for Jesus to come again and make this tired old world new again through love, a time for the fires of hope, peace, and joy to be built, ready to roar into life at the mere […]
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December 15, 2019
I Grew up around strong women who regularly changed the world. These were powerful women who saw something they thought should happen, and did something about it. It wasn’t a question of what was easy or possible. Instead they gathered people together and asked “So, how are we going to do this?” When I was […]
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December 8, 2019
Learning to be comfortable in silence was hard for me to learn. I grew up learning the power of good storytelling from both sides of my family, and no one was particularly surprised that I met my husband through a storytelling show, called the Moth, that he hosts to this day. In Seminary and Therapy […]
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November 24, 2019
My first seminary internship was as a farmer. Princeton Theological Seminary likes to be fancy, so our internships were called Field Education, but I don’t think when it was established in 1812, working on a farming training center north of Tokyo was exactly what Archibald Alexander, PTS’ founder, quite had in mind. And yet […]
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November 17, 2019
Standing at the arcade counter on my annual summer vacation, I had all the tickets my money could buy. The summer before, my parents told me that they weren’t giving me more money for the arcade – so I came up with a plan. I would save every dollar I could during the […]
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November 10, 2019
Good morning. It is good to be here with you all this morning. Particularly, it’s good to be up here with you all this morning. You may recognize me from sitting in the back with my cup of decaf coffee, where I simultaneously try to protect my coffee from the kids and wrangle the scissors […]
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October 27, 2019
The early church ran on a shoestring. It wasn’t that the community wasn’t generous; far from it. They were radically all in. They pooled all of the resources they had, and cared for each other out of a common purse. Imagine that stewardship campaign; “We are asking for 100% of your income this year, and […]
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October 20, 2019
Good morning! So, given the text we will be looking at this morning, I came up with two alternate titles for my sermon. Jesus Gets Hangry, and Temple Tantrum. This is a weird passage, right? Jesus sees a fig tree on the road. A fig tree with leaves. He’s hungry, so he goes to […]
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October 13, 2019
As we approach November and the beginning of our Stewardship campaign for 2020, Leigh and I are preaching about the theological foundations of the work of the church, about what shapes our understanding of our ministry, and the theological foundations of how we partner with what God is doing in the world. Thinking about […]
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October 6, 2019
Good morning! Our passage this morning is probably one you recognize- it’s used a lot when we talk about stewardship and money, and usually results in a lot of guilt and people not making eye contact with the preacher. But today, instead of heaping shame and guilt on your heads, let’s go camping. Shall we? […]
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