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Martin Elfert

The Rev. Martin Elfert is an immigrant to the Christian faith. After the birth of his first child, he began to wonder about the ways in which God was at work in his life and in the world. In response to this wondering, he joined Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he and his new son were baptized at the Easter Vigil in 2005 and where the community encouraged him to seek ordination. Martin served on the staff of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Spokane, Wash. from 2011-2015. He is now the rector of Grace Memorial Episcopal Church in Portland, Oreg.
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Is He Safe?

We have tried really hard to make the prophets safe. Indeed, in many ways the story of the almost 50 years since Dr. King’s murder has been the story of our efforts to domesticate him, to make him into an avuncular and harmless figure, to reduce him to someone who entreats us all to just get alon
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Some unwelcome things do happen for a reason

The stretch of road on which we stopped the car was heavy with fog – it was a plausible setting for a horror film. But by a stroke of holy good luck, a small park was nearby and the year-round caretaker was waiting in her trailer. We knocked on her door and she invited us into the warmth of her home while we called the tow truck.
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Sexual abuse and the intentional inaction

My contention is a different one: neglecting or ignoring or pardoning the behavior of the famous men in their midst was senior management’s plan.
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Religiosity belongs in a unique category

Like stories, like music, like theater, like love, faith operates in that realm of experience that refuses to be measured, weighed, or proven.
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The beauty of remembering

I wonder if, in one or more of this earth’s many languages, there is a word for this curious remembering?
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Father Knows Best: Why are People Racist?

What’s critical to understand is that this kind of racism – what we might call explicit racism – doesn’t exist on its own.
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The Holiness of Gratitude

By Martin Elfert One of my spiritual practices is to write thank you notes – not for things that happened yesterday or last week or...
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