Our Hearts are Restless

I’m so pleased that we, as a community, are reading Augustine together. He’s the single most influential thinker in Christian history. He’s been influential in my life as well. I have a passage from his Confessions that I’ve typed up, printed...

Happy New Year!

Dear Christ the Redeemer family, Happy 6th Day of Christmas, and Happy New Year (soon). Each year during these days between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, during the Twelve Days of Christmas, I take time to reflect and pray, to pull back to look at the big picture....

Tis the Season!

One of the Church’s most human works is the consecration of creation towards God. In a particular sense, this is the Church’s and humanity’s prime directive. Humanity was created under the decision to “Let them rule…” and...

Restored Relationships

On Monday, November 6th, the New York Times ran an editorial which pointed out that in the previous 511 days there had been 555 mass shootings in our nation. There’s been at least one more since. Much might be said about how these events are now normal for us (given...
“I’d like to connect.”

“I’d like to connect.”

I have this Henri Nouwen quote in the front of my Bible. It’s not a huge distinction, if you’ve ever seen my Bible, but it’s an important quote for me even still. Nouwen begins this quote, “In this world, love and woundedness come...
Verse-of-the-Day

Verse-of-the-Day

Edit: For more information and access to the verses of the day in electronic form, click here! Dear friends, Sunday in church you received a card with seven Scripture verses on it, the first of three such cards you will also receive on the next two Sundays. This is a...

Generosity and Joy

Dear Christ the Redeemer family, These next four weeks, the lectionary takes us to Philippians—the letter in which the word “joy” appears most frequently and “rejoice” occurs more times than in any of Paul’s other letters. Yet, at the same time, in this letter Paul...

Walking with the Spirit of God

Many of us have questions about the great mysteries of the Christian faith.   One of the most misunderstood of these mysteries is the work of the Holy Spirit.   The scriptures are clear regarding the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives as Christians. Each person who...