The Independent Sacramental Movement is filled with people and communities seeking to live the sacramental life with faithfulness, humility, and love. Across many jurisdictions, ministries, chapels, and small communities, clergy and laity are praying, serving, teaching, celebrating the sacraments, and bearing witness to the Good News of Jesus Christ. Yet many of us also know the challenges of this movement. Too often, communities labor in isolation. Clergy and laity may feel alone in their...

My Sisters and Brothers in Jesus Christ, Please keep me in your prayers. I am currently working on an ambitious project to help ISM jurisdictions with a foundational text and curriculum for priestly formation. God willing, I pray that it will be completed in time for Pentecost. My hope is that this project will strengthen formation in a more holistic way. Priestly formation must include theological education, pastoral ministry, preaching, spiritual development, and human formation. We do not...

Names matter. A name makes a claim, signals an identity, and shapes how others understand us before they hear a sermon, witness a liturgy, or speak to a bishop or priest. In the Independent Sacramental Movement, jurisdictional names often carry especially heavy meaning. They do more than distinguish one body from another. They frequently attempt to locate a community within the long memory of the Church. That is why so many jurisdictions adopt names such as Ancient Apostolic , Holy Orthodox...