As a new mother-priest, I am finding that I have to actively restrain myself from talking and writing constantly about my daughter, since she is…
In the New York area, we are at annual conference, and so I want to share just a few of my thoughts as we begin…
I have heard it said that becoming a parent radically changes your perspective on life. I have found that to be absolutely true. It began…
Over the last two weekends, people have thrown us baby showers. This was an unexpected development. Separated from our families and many of our close…
My husband and I have moved around a lot in recent years, and each move has involved a pretty major purge of possessions. Every time,…
I didn’t grow up in the kind of household where we all sat down to eat together, holding hands, and saying grace. At dinner time,…
I preached the following sermon at Yale Divinity School’s Lunar New Year worship service at Marquand Chapel on January 31, 2014. “Gōngxǐ Fācái!” A Mandarin…
I have been very slowly making my way through Nelson Mandela’s autobiography this year. Right now, I am reading about the first major trial of…
The first Sunday after Three Kings is always Baptism of the Lord, when we remember the day Jesus walked into the waters with John the…
As the pastors of The United Methodist Church of the Village, we have been privileged to minister to a church that has been actively following…
