Beloved saints of Trinity, My heart is filled with gratitude at the outpouring of care and compassion as my family navigated some challenging medical issues over the past few weeks. Through all of this, I was thinking and praying for you all, that the mission you all discerned together would continue to deepen your sense of belonging and community. This new mission is “To be a welcoming, inclusive community of faith grounded in the Episcopal tradition that looks to the fut

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI speaks well to the existential, societal, and theological problems of our times. A recent theologian, Metropolitan John Zizioulas, noted that the internet and social media, advertised as joining us, only serve to increase our loneliness. Our personhood and our freedom, indeed our identity, become online fragile entities, endorsed or attacked, emulated or cancelled, by the surging throngs of social media -- all the while our preferences, our o

Beloved saints, In the gospel appointed for the 7th Sunday of Easter, we meet Jesus in prayer with God for his disciples. A tender moment between God the Father and God the Son, which reveals a way for us to see how Jesus cared about his friends, and by virtue of baptism, us who also follow his way. He said, “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.” As Jesus’ beloved, our mis

Beloved saints of Trinity, In the gospel appointed for the 6th Sunday in Easter, we find ourselves still in this tender farewell discourse between Jesus and his friends, comforting them for what is about to happen. While also foreshadowing Pentecost, or the marking of the descent of the Holy Spirit among them…and by virtue of baptism, you and me…forever. Last Sunday, we witnessed three new saints folded into the body of Christ, marked as Christ’s own, forever. And we who als

Beloved saints of Trinity, As we prepare for our first gathering tomorrow, I am struck by these words of Jesus to his disciples in the gospel appointed for Easter 5. Situated in what many scholars categorize as the beginning of Jesus’ “farewell discourse” before his death, resurrection, and ascension, I find it helpful to focus on the instructions he left for his followers. Even before he underwent the suffering of the cross, Jesus was planning for what life would be like for