Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   I am hoping you all have been having a blessed and relaxing Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving was ...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s   This weekend our readings will begin with the story of Hannah, the mother of Samuel, one of the great...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   This coming Sunday, we will celebrate our patronal feast for St. Martin of Tours, whose actual feast...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   This weekend we will celebrate All Saints and All Souls Day. Those saints are the “hallows” from which...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This weekend our gospel passage features the last healing story to appear in Mark’s gospel, and it is...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   If you are of a certain generation, there may be a game you played with your hands as kids: here’s the...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   One of my favorite scenes in the original Star Wars movie—besides the blowing up of the Death Star—is...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   This Sunday we will feature readings honoring St. Francis of Assisi, whose feast day was  Friday. St....

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s   I always hope that when the lessons are read in each week’s liturgy, that we are all listening to each...

First impressions, we are told, mean a lot. First words mean a lot. Think of famous first lines in literature. Elizabeth Barrett Browning...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   It deserves to be stated often: We are completely and totally not only part of creation, no matter how...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   One of the biggest—and most damaging—tendencies in our society right now is the tendency to divide...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   Happy Labor Day weekend! I hope we all spend it in gratitude for the labor that makes our lives...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s,   This Sunday we hear from one of my favorite psalms—Psalm 84, which speaks of the joy of standing...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Sunday we will be blessed to have the Rt. Rev. Deon Johnson visit us for his scheduled Episcopal...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Our gospel reading for this week (Mark 4:26-34) depicts Jesus using humble agricultural metaphors to...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Sunday in our gospel reading from Mark, we will hear Jesus and his disciples being accused by the...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost, ending the Easter season and beginning a long season known in the...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Although, as we can’t be reminded enough, Easter is a season that lasts 50 days, there is a notable...

Beloved members of St. Martin’s, Last night, despite being caught in a 45-minute- long traffic jam on the interstate, we were able to...