Listening, Learning, and Bearing Fruit: A Moment of Discernment for the Independent Sacramental Movement God willing, I will be spending two weeks this coming summer in Utrecht, the Netherlands, after having been accepted into the Old Catholic Theology: Contexts and Calling  program at the Utrecht Summer School. I am grateful to receive word of my acceptance into both tracks of this intensive program. Over the years, I have spoken with several people from around the world who

My sisters and brothers in Jesus Christ, As Christmas draws near, I want to pause and offer a heartfelt thank you to everyone who reads, shares, and returns to IndependentSacramental.org . When I first began this website, I could not have imagined how many people would find it helpful—or how much the project would grow. Your messages, and encouragement turned what began as a personal attempt to make sense of the Independent Sacramental Movement into a shared resource for a wi

Why It’s Time to Share Our Stories — and a New Way We’re Doing It Across the Independent Sacramental Movement (ISM), God is quietly at work. Not in massive cathedrals. Not in institutions with vast resources. But in tiny chapels, home altars, prisons, homeless encampments, shelters, nursing homes, and streets where life is hardest . Everywhere in our movement, clergy and laity are serving with extraordinary faithfulness — yet most of their stories are almost completely unkn

I am genuinely excited about several new projects that have been coming together over the past few months—each one part of a larger vision to support and strengthen the Independent Sacramental Movement (ISM) . My goal is simple but ambitious: to create and share free and affordable resources  that help our movement grow in depth, credibility, and unity. At its best, the ISM is a movement of grace and creativity. We bring the goodness, truth, and beauty  of the Gospel to peopl