Rector's Reflections 3/4

Oct 17, 20232 min read

Rooted in Abundance: Gathering In, A Reflection for Week 4, October 18, 2023

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This time of year, even if you are a city dweller, thoughts turn to the change of seasons, and to the...

Rooted In Abundance: Rooted in Resilience, a Reflection for Week 3

Oct 9, 20233 min read

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Rooted In Abundance: Rooted in Resilience, a Reflection for Week 3

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, We do not think of trees as newsworthy, perhaps because they are organisms that are rooted in place....

Rector's Reflection: More Than the Grasses of the Field, October 7, 2023

Oct 8, 20232 min read

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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...

Rector’s Reflection: More Than the Grasses in the Field, October 7 2023

Oct 6, 20232 min read

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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....

Rooted in Abundance: Rooted in Community, A Reflection for Week 2

Sep 30, 20233 min read

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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...

Rector's Reflection: Making Room for God, September 30, 2023

Sep 28, 20232 min read

Season after Pentecost

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”...

Rooted in Abundance: The Smiley Face in the Forest, a Reflection for Week 1

Sep 25, 20232 min read

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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...

Rector's reflection: The Twist is Grace, September 23, 2023

Sep 22, 20232 min read

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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

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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...

Rector's Reflection: Breaking the Cycle of Negative Results, September 9, 2023

Sep 8, 20232 min read

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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,...

Rector's Reflection: The Kindness Conundrum, September 2, 2023

Sep 2, 20233 min read

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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...

Rector's Reflection: The Way of Praying, August 5, 2023

Aug 4, 20233 min read

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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...

Rector's Reflection: Proof, April 15, 2023

Apr 14, 20232 min read

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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...

Rector's Reflection: A New Fire, April 8, 2023

Apr 7, 20232 min read

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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...

Rector's Reflection: The Strength to Love, January 14, 2023

Jan 14, 20233 min read

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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

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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...

Rector's reflection: Promises, Promises, December 3, 2022

Dec 3, 20223 min read

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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

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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

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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

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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...