But be transformed... Sermon for Sunday, August 23, 2020 Romans 12:1-8 When I was first ordained a priest, I served as curate at St. Benedict’s parish, in Smyrna.  The parish was a new church start, brand new, from scratch. It was an incredible place.  Still is.  We met for the first two years or so... Continue Reading →

Bee   Just the other day I was watering the plants in the garden at dusk in the shade when  the water had a chance to soak in. My shoulder brushed a shrub I love with violet flowers like paper and a blossom buzzed. I paused and gently tapped several until one spoke back. One... Continue Reading →

What can I do with this shit?   Today, when my jaw was clinched so tight for the umpteenth time that  it hurt and my ears rang from  the pressure that I carry right there in that place where I try my best to keep my face calm and project a facade of  “I can... Continue Reading →

Where is Wisdom in this? July 26, 2020 The Rev. Dr. Stuart Higginbotham     Almost twenty years ago, while in undergrad, I had the opportunity to travel to Belize with a group of Chemistry and Biology majors to study the tropical reefs off the coast of Ambergris Caye.  It was an incredible experience, to... Continue Reading →

So that our eyes look forward   What does it mean to be present in all of this, around us and within? To be present, surrounded by so much we cannot control, yet called on to pay attention to it. The wind blows where it will. Which wind?  How will we know when we lick... Continue Reading →

119   I had lost count of  how many days we have been here in this new way of life that we keep resisting on some level but that is relentless in its insistence that we are being transformed into something different, something possible and whole. Our fears grab our ankles and choke our voices... Continue Reading →