6/21/2023

There is an unofficial, but very competitive race where I live in western Pennsylvania. For home gardeners, it is the race for the first home-grown ripe tomato. The goal is to have your first ripe tomato by July 4th and, of course, bragging rights with all the other neighbors. The first person to harvest that beauty is sure to post a picture on social media and expound on the loveliness of that first ripe tomato.

6/1/2023

I am 8 months into a new call and I am exhausted.

Last August, I packed up 17 years of life in Chicago, along with a husband and two children, to begin a new chapter in San Francisco.

5/3/2023

The legacy of the opportunity present in the resurrection is ours, and we must do the work that will pass that legacy to the next generation and the one after that.

4/3/2023

We’re still called to embody God’s love for this messy broken world by coming together, by knowing each other, by loving each other. Even, especially, when we disagree.

3/1/2023

Is there still an Epiphany? As we take up our Lenten journey to the tomb and dig deep, one more time, to proclaim what lies beyond it, hoping we can speak with something like the conviction we had the first time we told the wondrous outcome?

2/1/2023

Almost two months ago, we got a puppy. At now 5 months, she’s the most adorable thing—a Bernedoodle (mom is a Bernese Mountain Dog and dad is a Poodle). She’s soft and incredibly calm and so lovable, in fact, the vet called her an amazing dog as far as her personality and demeanor.

1/4/2023

New Year. New ways of living. New opportunities to grow. New eyes to see what is happening among us and around us.

11/29/2022

What tears have you shed as of late? Are they still captured inside only to come out at an inopportune time?

10/27/2022

Soon we will “fall back” an hour.

9/30/2022

I typically dislike when my job is mentioned as a part of my introduction to others. I cannot count how many times have I been introduced to someone with the words, “This is Andy, the pastor at our church.”

9/27/2022

“Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?”

8/29/2022

Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10

My Father, a professional jazz musician and composer, tutored me in jazz theory and piano performance growing up. One day as my dad and I played a song together, I became enthused with a scale. I improvised energetically. Moving up and down the scale on the piano, I played vigorously without pause until my Father stopped me in the middle of my performance.