Read inspiring reflections from St. David’s clergy each week. Letters are posted on Thursday afternoons.
Find them here, or linked in our Friday morning emails.
The Good Shepherd
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want. ~Psalm 23. In ancient times, images of Jesus as The Good Shepherd were more common than images of the cross. The Rev. Dr. Peter Stube writes about why this is in his clergy letter this week, and how we continue to relate to The Good Shepherd today.
Remembering the Journey, Discerning the Way
Springtime is a great season to look back on the past year and look ahead to where we are already heading next. Elliot VanHoy invites us to Annual Meeting to do just that.
Go and Witness
Throughout much of the Gospels the disciples seem like they don’t understand Jesus. The resurrection changes everything for them; it should for us today, too.
Feeling Forsaken by God
As we are reminded each Holy Week, Jesus lived and knew all of our suffering, even feelings of forsakenness.
Experiencing Holy Week
Dear People of St. David’s, One of the pleasures of getting older is chatting with my adult children about their professional lives. Each of my children is engaged in a profession connected to my own career. I began adulthood as a schoolteacher, and my youngest now...
An Experience of Jesus
When people attend St. David’s for a funeral or other event, many times they are visitors. The Rev. Thomas Szczerba has a particular invitation for them, made in hopeful welcome.
Everything has become new!
As we find ourselves moving this Lenten season towards Easter, the Rev. Tanya Regli encourages us to look up and look around for the new life that God surrounds us with.
The Word become flesh is among us
What does it mean that our cosmic God has also come and dwelt among us? The Rev. Rick Morley explores this both/and understanding of God in his clergy letter this week.
Jesus, Our Mother Hen
What are the ways in which we are allowing Lent to challenge us in the ways that we engage in self-examination, guided by scripture? Today, Elliot VanHoy encourages to consider a reflection of God found in a metaphor used by Christ in this coming Sunday’s Gospel.
Love is Stronger Than Death
That ashy Cross! A yearly reminder of our mortality, that also serves as a reminder about the kind of live we’ve been given to live.