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Mystery Achievement

Our first Sunday together was 12 January 2025, almost exactly one year ago. Anniversaries like this always render me reflective, a reality exacerbated by the installation celebration you have planned for me (and us) this coming Sunday, 11 January 2026. There’s a song by the group The Pretenders called “Mystery Achievement.” In it, songwriter and…

Looking for Hope & Wonder

“We three kings of Orient are…” begins the famous carol. And perhaps like most things famous, it’s fairly polarizing. There’s the fact that the biblical story does not say there were “three,” and they certainly were not “kings.” It is also an Epiphany carol that gets nestled within Christmas carols. Across the years, “We Three…

Ringing Out Grief, Ringing In Hope

Nearly 200 years ago, a man named Arthur Henry Hallam died at the age of 22 of a cerebral hemorrhage. His death profoundly affected his college friend, a man we know as Alfred Lord Tennyson. His grief was deep, and Arthur’s death literally shook the foundations of his world. He journeyed into and through his…