August 12, 2021 Last night, I had a powerful dream.  In the dream, I had been sent to Eastern Turkey to visit an archeological site.  When I arrived, I was told that Mary Magdalene’s body had been discovered deep within a cave.  A group of people had worked to construct a shrine around the site,... Continue Reading →

This photo comes from a cookbook my grandmother gave Lisa and me as a wedding present...from a family potluck. The Rev. Dr. Stuart Higginbotham Proper 12, Year B July 25, 2021 The Magic of Potlucks I couldn’t read today’s texts without being filled with childhood memories of the fantastic potluck Sunday lunches we had at... Continue Reading →

Church in the Bardo Stuart Higginbotham If you have read George Saunders fantastic book Lincoln in the Bardo, you will have been introduced to the phenomenally imaginative description of Abraham Lincoln’s life after the death of his son Willie.  Lincoln the father struggled to understand what could possibly come next in his life; indeed, he... Continue Reading →

Icon by Robert Lentz The Rev. Dr. Stuart Higginbotham 7th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 10 July 11, 2021 Ephesians 1:3-14 To gather up all things in him Over 1,600 years ago, an Ethiopian robber and slave owner named Moses had a conversion experience and became a hermit monk. He lived in the Western Egyptian desert... Continue Reading →

Church in the Wild: Healing for soul, body, community, and the earth Stuart Higginbotham As I look to step into this two-month time of rest, reading, reflection, and re-grounding, I am keenly aware that I feel drawn more and more to explore the richness of what it means to pray with and through creation--not in... Continue Reading →

The Rev. Dr. Stuart Higginbotham The Fourth Sunday of Easter, 2021 I John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18 April 25, 2021 A Sabbatical Manifesto Today is the last Sunday before I begin my sabbatical this coming Thursday.  I am very aware that sabbaticals are incredible privileges, and I am very aware that I really need one.  I... Continue Reading →

Gathering Stones Together Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher, order your disciples to stop.’  He answered, ‘I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.’  (Luke 19:39-40) This year’s Easter sermon may be the strangest I have ever written, but given the times we are in, that... Continue Reading →

The Rev. Dr. Stuart Higginbotham Lent 5, Year B March 21, 2021 John 12:20-33 On a walk in the forest behind our house...a birds nest Prayer as Trust in the Spirit Today is the Fifth Sunday in Lent, and, as we look toward beginning Holy Week with Palm Sunday next Sunday, this is the last... Continue Reading →

Daddar and Evelyn on his back patio The Rev. Dr. Stuart Higginbotham Lent 3, Year B (2021) Exodus 20:1-17; St. John 2:13-22 March 7, 2021 Prayer As Your Life This is the Third Sunday in Lent, as we continue in this series of reflections on how we practice our prayer.  What I share today in... Continue Reading →