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...

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

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...

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....

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...

Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, In our epistle this weekend, we hear the Apostle Paul describes Jesus as “emptying himself”...

At 2:50 am on September 23, Autumn officially began in the western hemisphere. Most people call this season “Fall” for a very practical...

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...

Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, It certainly seems the lectionary has been speaking straight into our times—and how perfect...

Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, This weekend’s reading from the Hebrew scriptures is from the prophet Ezekiel. Specifically,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, The Christian liturgical calendar has two seasons of preparation: Advent and Lent. In the...

Beloved Members and Friends of St. Martin’s, One of the most interesting images in Christendom is that of the “Jesse tree,” which is...

Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Periodically in American Christianity, a theory known as the “prosperity gospel” or “the gospel of...

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...

Rector’s Reflections: Praying with Thankfulness Beloved Members of St. Martin's, This week, we get the introduction of another character...