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Hello Pilgrims, As much as I try to keep our focus in the present, I want to direct your attention to Lent….

Hello Pilgrims, How are you today? The sun is streaming through my front windows as I let its rays of warmth lift my spirits….

….I’ve come to believe our vocation is not a singular experience, even if that has been the parlance of pastoral ministry. Rather, I now experience our calling(s) as a fractal–a never ending pattern, infinitely complex that is self-similar across different scales…..

….I would not be transparent, nor authentic if I did not confess how weird it feels to enter the covenant of baptism without a congregation surrounding the Miguel family. The covenant, I always imagine, is a three-legged stool for MacKenzie upheld by God, the Migels, and their beloved community, Pilgrim, making promises to her that she will not begin to comprehend for months and years to come…..

Hello Pilgrims singing in the rain, before freezing temperatures descend. I’m thinking you already know how this love letter begins… we are moving our Sunday service online again this week….

Happy Epiphany my beloved Pilgrims, ….

Pilgrims, Merry Christmas! This will be the last newsletter for 2021 so as to carve out respite for Pilgrim staff to enjoy some downtime post Christmas festivities.

Pilgrims, What wondrous music flowed from the chancel last Sunday–Pilgrim’s Cantata in person!….

Beloved Pilgrims, I pray you are moving through this season with care and caution as we ready ourselves for the omicron variant to become more prevalent in the United States.

Beloved Pilgrims, Happy Thanksgiving. I pray all of you who are traveling do not experience too many delays and congestion ….

Hello Pilgrims, I have had trouble adjusting this week….

Hello Pilgrims, Thank you, thank you… all who helped bring a beautiful, poignant All Saints/Souls Day service into being--especially all of our readers….

Hello Pilgrims, It is good to be getting back into the Pilgrim groove after my two week try-out as grandma….

Hello Pilgrims from sunny, warm Orlando! I pray all is well with each of you as we journey deeper into autumn….