April 15, 2018 Psalm 4 / 1 John 3:1-7 / Luke 24:36-48 The Reverend Jamison Galt

April 8, 2018 O Lord, refresh our sensibilities. Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in, and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with, and casseroles that put starch and […]

April 1, 2018 “Here, then, is the message of Easter, or at least the beginning of that message. The resurrection of Jesus doesn’t mean, “It’s all right. We’re going to heaven now.” No, the life of heaven has been born on this earth. It doesn’t mean, “So there is a life after death.” Well, there […]

March 18, 2018 “Refusing to keep the fast is gnostic. Adam was the first gnostic. After all, God didn’t impose a fast on Adam because creation is bad. Adam wasn’t forced to wait because the things he wanted were evil. It was all good, very good. Why did he have to wait? He had to […]

March 11, 2018 As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus’ thirst. Repent and believe’ Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor — He knows your weakness. He wants […]

March 4, 2018 At particular moments of fatigue or stress, I saw forces of hate rising up inside me, and the capacity to hurt someone who was weak and was provoking me! That, I think, was what caused me the most pain: to discover who I really am, and to realize that maybe I did […]

February 25, 2018 It’s hard, now, to be with someone else wholly, uninterruptedly, and it’s hard to be truly alone. The fine art of doing nothing in particular, also known as thinking, or musing, or introspection, or simply moments of being, was part of what happened when you walked from here to there alone, or […]

February 18, 2018 “All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.” RICHARD ROHR Genesis 9:8-17 / 1 Peter 3:18-22 /Mark1:9-15 The Reverend Jamison Galt

February 11, 2018 We leave our places of worship, and no deep and inexpressible wonder sits upon our faces. We can sing these lilting melodies, and when we go out into the streets our faces are one with the faces of those who have left the theaters and the music halls. There is nothing about […]

February 4, 2018 The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. MARK TWAIN Isaiah 40:21-31 / 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 / Mark1:29-39 The Reverend Jamison Galt