Rector's Reflection: More Than the Grasses of the Field, October 7, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, This Saturday, on October 7we call all animal lovers to gather at 4 pm to commemorate the...
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Oct 6, 20232 min read
Rector’s Reflection: More Than the Grasses in the Field, October 7 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Saturday, on October 7, we call all animal lovers to gather at 4 pm to commemorate the Feast of St....
Sep 30, 20233 min read
Rooted in Abundance: Rooted in Community, A Reflection for Week 2
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, In Fishlake National Forest in Utah, in the south-central part of the state, there lives one of the...
Sep 28, 20232 min read
Rector's Reflection: Making Room for God, September 30, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, In our epistle this weekend, we hear the Apostle Paul describes Jesus as “emptying himself”...
Sep 25, 20232 min read
Rooted in Abundance: The Smiley Face in the Forest, a Reflection for Week 1
At 2:50 am on September 23, Autumn officially began in the western hemisphere. Most people call this season “Fall” for a very practical...
Sep 22, 20232 min read
Rector's reflection: The Twist is Grace, September 23, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, This weekend we will hear Jesus’s parable of the workers in the vineyard. Because Jesus’s...
Sep 15, 20232 min read
Rector's Reflection: Sweet Forgiveness, September 16, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, It certainly seems the lectionary has been speaking straight into our times—and how perfect...
Sep 8, 20232 min read
Rector's Reflection: Breaking the Cycle of Negative Results, September 9, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, This weekend’s reading from the Hebrew scriptures is from the prophet Ezekiel. Specifically,...
Sep 2, 20233 min read
Rector's Reflection: The Kindness Conundrum, September 2, 2023
The Kindness Conundrum Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Last week in our epistle from Romans 12:1-8, Paul urged us to offer our bodies as...
Aug 4, 20233 min read
Rector's Reflection: The Way of Praying, August 5, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, What are your favorite ways to pray, or prayers that you say? The title for this piece is...
Apr 14, 20232 min read
Rector's Reflection: Proof, April 15, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, I’ve always found the story of Thomas, which we will hear as the gospel this weekend, to be...
Apr 7, 20232 min read
Rector's Reflection: A New Fire, April 8, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, Do you remember a time when things seemed the very darkest, when a crisis was upon you that...
Jan 14, 20233 min read
Rector's Reflection: The Strength to Love, January 14, 2023
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin's. It has long been my habit to spend some time prior to each remembrance of the Rev. Dr....
Dec 10, 20222 min read
Rector's Reflections: Great Expectations, December 10, 2022
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, The Christian liturgical calendar has two seasons of preparation: Advent and Lent. In the...
Dec 3, 20223 min read
Rector's reflection: Promises, Promises, December 3, 2022
Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, One of the most interesting images in Christendom is that of the “Jesse tree,” which is...
Sep 24, 20223 min read
Rector’s Reflection: September 24, 2022
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Periodically in American Christianity, a theory known as the “prosperity gospel” or “the gospel of...
Dec 10, 20213 min read
Rector's Reflections, December 10, 2021
Rector’s Reflections: Of Joy and Justice The season of Advent could also be subtitled “the season of the prophets.” On Advent 1 in year...
Dec 3, 20213 min read
Rector's Reflections, December 3, 2021
Rector’s Reflections: Praying with Thankfulness Beloved Members of St. Martin's, This week, we get the introduction of another character...
Oct 27, 20215 min read
Rector's Reflections, October 28, 2021
Rector’s Reflections: Every Perfect Gift is our Testimony Beloved Members of St. Martin's, Last week we launched our annual giving...
Oct 23, 20212 min read
Rector's Reflections, October 23, 2021
Rector’s Reflections: The Gift of Courage Beloved Members of St. Martin's, What would you say if Jesus was standing before you right now,...
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