​​​​​​​​​​St. Andrew's Episcopal Church

Fifty years ago yesterday, and just about at this time, I knelt before the bishop and was ordained a priest. In the Orthodox Church,...

In his interesting book, The Magi, author Eric Vanden Eykel invites his readers to imagine the nativity scene. Who is included in our...

What’s in a name? The feast we observe today is centered around one—the Name of Jesus. Many years ago, eight days after Christmas was...

Tonight is not the night for heavy theology and great analysis. It is the night for story and poetry and song. It is a night of mystery...

It was the night of the big Christmas pageant. The pastor faced a huge dilemma when the director came running to her in the midst of...

In the name of God, the Creator; Jesus Christ, the long-awaited messiah; and the Holy Spirit, the Giver of life. Amen. Today we get...

Good morning, saints of St. Andrew’s Church, Milford! What a great joy and blessing it is for me to be with you this morning to celebrate...

In the movie Sister Act 2, reuniting with the Reverend Mother played by Maggie Smith, Deloris van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) learns that...

Today we celebrate the feast of Christ the King also called “The Reign of Christ.” It is the end of the church’s liturgical year. Next...

Time and its passage are no doubt on the minds of Jesus and his disciples as they wander through the crowds on the streets of Jerusalem,...

There was a man in Jericho called Zaccheus Now the Hebrews, they were tall, but Zaccheus, he was small Yet the Lord loved Zaccheus,...

Once upon a time in a land far away, a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating...

A parable is a lot like a present someone gives us, perhaps a little gold gilded box. Jesus gave the parables to us as a gift and...

God of the borderlands, you travel between the foreign and familiar; open our world to those we would exclude and despise; and liberate...

Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side to light and guard, to rule and guide....

This morning I want to talk about hell. For some Christians, who see God as an angry, vindictive punishing God, it is a place of eternal...

“Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.” In June of 1986, I was in the process of moving to a new home. It was a...

In the Name of the God of tender mercies: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. The pastor asked Luigi to share some insight with the young...

You have probably seen how some churches display the topic of the Sunday sermon in a sign that sits out on their lawn. Some years back...

I think Jesus may have been a Gemini. I know, I know we celebrate his birthday on December 25 and that would make him a Capricorn. Of...