Well, that ordination was amazing. As I shook people’s hands at the end of my ordination, the most consistent comment I heard from people (especially people I had never met)…

Several months ago, my bishop and I discussed details of my ordination’s time and place. I realized that I was having strong feelings about where and when and how it…

We usually don’t think of theology as a deadly profession, but it can be. I deliberately intend the double entendre of “profession” here: that is, it can mean both “the…

Thanks to a generous donation to the Berkeley Divinity School, I travelled to El Salvador last week with three other members of Berkeley for an 8-day mission trip hosted by…

The problem with getting ready to leave a seminary where one has lived, studied, worshipped, eaten, and partied for three years is that everyone wants to process our imminent departure.…

Oh, my friends, the third year of seminary can sometimes be a vast sea of conflicting currents covered over by a thick fog of assurance about salvation–I mean “vocation.” Yes,…

I am incredibly privileged to preach now and then at St. Luke’s, one of the oldest historically black Episcopal churches in the United States, and a church with an incredible…

Some of the least celebrated heroes of the Church are undoubtedly the administrators. By this I do not mean simply anybody in an administrative role, but those people who exercise…

Sometimes, seminary studies can seem a bit arcane. I remember one of my favorite Biblical Studies professors, Carolyn Sharp, jokingly saying in a sermon, “We Bible professors like to tell…

Much is made of the fact that the ancient Israelites, once freed from their enslavement in Egypt, wandered in the desert for forty years before reaching Canaan. Forty years? Big…