Pastor's Blog

In the first centuries of the Christian church, church leaders dressed like regular worshippers, in the civilian clothes of the...

Today marks a full year since I have had students physically in my classroom. Even as our lives were all beginning to change right before...

It has been 6 weeks since Inauguration Day in DC. St. Matt's Racial Equity Group member, Peter Iversen, reflects on his experience of...

As a White person, I’ve found it surprisingly difficult to recognize how race impacts my life. But the one place I do notice my Whiteness...

When I saw the video of George Floyd being murdered by a cop with his knee placed on Floyd’s neck, I felt sick and helpless. I felt like...

The end of November will mark six years since my wife Denice and I showed up for worship at St. Matt’s and five years since we said yes...

Something happened to me when I saw the photo of Derek Shauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. It wasn’t just the photograph, which was...

"There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ...