Nine Lessons I am Learning on this Thursday Stuart Higginbotham We will resist important lessons with every ounce of our being if they make us feel like we are losing power. Remember every time you fought to get your child to clean their room.  What if the trashed room made them feel more powerful? Now... Continue Reading →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLrzaesbvjc The prophets of these days   Perhaps you are the prophets of these days-- and why not?-- women and men calling us to remember the command to love our neighbor. Do no harm.  Teach our children. Love your neighbor as yourself. We are being shaken out of our stupor. Perhaps in your dedication we... Continue Reading →

We have but taken the first steps   Last night I couldn’t sleep because I realized we have but taken the first steps. The first. Many more will follow. The impulse is always to grasp, to understand --now-- to get a handle on the significance of this surreal experience. All of it. While my mind... Continue Reading →

  Deep Lent   We had gotten so accustomed to setting out our usual things: the purple vestments with the wooden candlesticks, pebbles in the font, sticks and vines on the chancel. Then Deep Lent began and we found ourselves taken to a place we had not chosen for ourselves. We looked around with confusion, ... Continue Reading →

    Something has shifted   Something has shifted, slipped suddenly into a new position, a new angle within my soul and the soul of all of us-- maybe we’re beginning to  remember that this is real? Something has shifted as I walked today with my wife and we looked ahead of us and we... Continue Reading →

  Intimate Things Happen in the Darkness A Sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent 2020 The Rev. Dr. Stuart Higginbotham   For a long time now, I have kept a practice of having paper and pen on the shelf by my side of the bed.  Very often, I wake up in the middle of... Continue Reading →