Two weeks ago, I began the story of my first night on call as a student chaplain in the hospital. I had begged my way into the internship program because the program supervisor (in training herself) had deemed me too young and inexperienced at first. After working several daytime shifts in the first week on […]
Aneri McGalla Do you ever feel like you’re just waiting for the other shoe to drop? I think the best example I can give of this is in a relationship. Say you had a massive argument months or years ago, you said you forgave each other, you said you moved past it, but every time […]
One of my first “hands on” ministry experiences took place during the month-long January term in the middle of my first year of seminary; I turned 23 years old that month. Instead of signing up for a traditional classroom elective course, I had applied for and was barely accepted into, a half unit of what […]
As we have already been reminded this morning a very real and worrisome way, the tongues of fire that suddenly appeared among the apostles gathered all together in one house for Pentecost probably didn’t give them a sense of the spirit, spirit of gentleness. Instead it came, as Acts tells us, with a sound like […]
We have been blessed this Easter season to have a variety of different preachers bringing us the Word in worship, and that continues this week as we welcome the Rev. Shelvis Smith-Mather. Our church has supported the Revs. Shelvis and Nancy Smith-Mather and their missionary work as peacemakers in South Sudan for sixteen years. Scripture Watch the Livestream
There’s this scene in Glee that instantly came to mind when I read the Gospel of John passage. For those who never watched it, Glee was a show about a high school show choir. It was loud and dramatic and often ridiculous, but underneath all the singing and chaos, it was about a bunch of teenagers trying to figure […]
It is good to be back in worship with you all after a couple of weekends away. I was only actually out of town for one week, but at this time last week, I was still snoozing a bit since we didn’t get home from the Honduras medical mission trip until about midnight the night […]
I was on the phone with one of my grandmas the other day, and throughout the whole conversation, my grandma would return to a phrase as if it was her mantra. She would start talking about something happening in her town, or something happening across the country, and then she would stop herself and say, […]
Scripture Watch the Livestream Due to technical difficulties, we have not included the 8:45am worship service for April 19, 2026
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It wouldn’t have been right for Mary and Mary Magdalene to go to the tomb any earlier than first thing on Sunday morning. They couldn’t travel, especially not to a place where the dead are buried, on the Sabbath. But as soon as there was light on the next day, they made their way to […]
Nine years ago I was ordained on a Palm Sunday. It has become a fun and beautiful tradition to share that with you, or remind you of it, every Palm Sunday, so thank you for playing along and letting me celebrate a special day in my life with all of you. Ha. But I also […]
