Saint James is celebrating Christmas Eve online and carefully in-person. We will shorten our worship, wear our masks, and keep the doors...

So what about when you're expecting a place to land when you're in a strange place and that is not what happens? What can we learn from a...

Neither Mary nor Joseph appears on face value to be other than a simple first century peasant. That is not the end of the story. What is...

The shepherds are doing what shepherds do: shepherding. Suddenly, angels appear in the sky and announce a new birth. What can you expect...

This year we are switching it up. Normally we explore the magi who came from the East after Christmas. This year they are beginning the...

In the end, faith, a relationship, has practical and practicable skills. We close out the #faith series with a reminder that the...

Jesus goes to eat at the home a religious leader. While he is eating there, a woman comes in to wash his feet and anoint him. The...

Sometimes I find myself wondering how to bounce back from living like I had no faith. Simon is well-acquainted with denying his faith....

Remember when cellphones came in bags that were difficult to consider truly “portable?” Now, cellphones fit in a pocket easily. Jesus...

Where is your table? Where do you go to be welcomed, accepted, loved, known, and transformed? God always has a place at the table for...

We are close to ending our series on the #table. I have found that being at table with others changes me. Zacchaeus found the same thing....

Jesus did not hold back when it came to giving. Even before he willingly gave his life away on the cross, he gave his life away in...

Jesus models what it means to be a person at the table; he serves others. Sometime we do not appreciate those who serves us at table. Yet...

Matthew, Mark, and Luke share the story of a woman who anoints Jesus with expensive and aromatic ointment. It is an extravagant gesture,...

This week we move into the New Testament with a story Jesus told about the table. Though the table may have become less central in our...

I am excited to begin our #Table series this Sunday. Saint James offers communion weekly, gathered around the table. Most folks spend...

Perhaps there is a lot to a name and maybe we are not all that different from one another. This week we take a look at Proverbs for...

There's inspiring poetry in the Hebrew Bible from sources other than the psalms: Song of Solomon. It is beautiful love poem; sometimes...

As I have spent the last five weeks reading the writings of Jeremiah, it seems to be beautiful poetry and prose, written from the heart....

What do we do when we reach the end of rational hopefulness? Hope is hard to come by at times. Jeremiah acts out his hope despite all...