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Friday Icon: The Peasants’ Churchyard
via “Old Church Tower at Nuenen” van Gogh, 1885 Did you know that Van Gogh almost became a pastor? In his young life, he spent time as a missionary, and he wrote about theological issues in his many...
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When Easter doesn’t feel like Easter
van Gogh’s The Raising of Lazarus This sermon is offered as part of the Eastertide Sermon Series at Evensong here at Trinity, exploring facets of Jesus’ resurrection. Today I preach on the...
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drugs as grace
Reading up for a sermon last week, I found the staggering statistic: 50% of people in the U.S. who suffer from depression do not seek treatment for their illness. I couldn’t help but wonder why, and...
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crying with the psalmist
“How long, O Lord, how long?” I wonder how long it is that my mind will be in this space, that my refrain will be from the second part of the third verse of psalm 6, “low long, O Lord, how long?” It...
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some things change, some things stay the same
Some days require double-strength stress relief tea. Some days just feel more anxious; my body aches and I can’t concentrate. Sometimes I make up a theory about why I notice a lot more tension some...
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analogies
These pairs of words were the bane of my existence in fifth and sixth grades. Discerning the most representative relationship between two words seemed like a pointless, tedious, exhausting job. And...
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the enemy is not netflix. the enemy is depression.
“The idea that every day is another opportunity to battle the constant barrage of thoughts that inform me of my every weakness both perceived and real, is often too overwhelming to contemplate and the...
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Crazy Christian Family
Two months ago, I started taping scraps of paper with peoples’ names on them to my office walls. Yes, I am suffering mental illness, but I’m told it’s not the sort which often results in erratic...
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holy hands
on my current vocational limitations, finding grace in the midst, & family at Christmastime. On the Covenant Blog today: CLICK HERE.Filed under: community, depression, Eucharist, faith, family...
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Merry Christmas!
A meditation I wrote for today sent out via the Living Church Daily Devotional: CLICK HERE. (Subscribing is FREE, just click the link in the upper left corner of the new window; you’ll get a sweet...
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anxiety attacks and the fallacy of linear progression
Exactly a year ago, up here in the mountains, I fell upon reading Katharine Welby’s blog, and began to admit to myself that I wasn’t “just blue” or “tired” or “having a tough week”–I was depressed....
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to my loved ones
for all friends, acquaintances, and family (gathered from Minnesota and Ohio, Canada and the UK, New York to Texas to Georgia and Washington, and so many places in between): I am feeling so very...
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Sermon, Last Sunday of Lent
Today’s sermon preached at St. A’s, the raising of Lazarus and Grandpa Chuck’s death. Sermon Audio It is because of my grandfather’s death that I stand before you this morning. During a particularly...
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Monday’s Kingdom of Heaven
Sometimes Mondays just are this way: uncomfortable and weird, weighed down with expectations, chock-full of to-dos for the week, a crashing tidal wave of responsibility while we’re just starting up the...
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A Sermon for the First Sunday of Lent. “The same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him.” I will never forget the week that I realized I was living under the thumb of depression. I...
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