A video is available when you scroll to the bottom of the text I go away for one week and someone slips in two awful readings. Billy Collins is a saving grace, however. Psalm 137 has an iconic … [Read more...]
Bilbo Baggins, TS Elliot, and Our Adventures
This is an archive sermon from a 2004 Sunday evening Jazz worship in Buffalo, NY and there is no video version of it. “The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used … [Read more...]
Queens and Kings, Oh My!
I do not mean any disrespect when I say this, but why did the death and burial of Queen Elizabeth occupy a hurricane-size space in the U.S. news media? (Why do hurricanes take up so much space for … [Read more...]
Contemplation — a rif on Wendell Berry
Scroll to the bottom of the Sermon text for a YouTube version Jeremiah is grieving and Jesus is taking no prisoners. And I am not preaching on either of them. It is not just because I am a little … [Read more...]
A 21st Century Wisdom
NOTE TO READER: If you happened to listen to or read last Sunday's sermon, this newspaper column may sound familiar. I shrank it down to 500 words (or so), which is my limit for the newspaper, and … [Read more...]
This will seem utterly ridiculous, I know
Scroll down for a video version of the sermon Texts for Preaching Exodus 32:7-14 The Lord said to Moses, "Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted … [Read more...]
Trust
In between columns about birds and butterflies, I actually think about my role as a columnist. Perhaps it is because I am a preacher by profession and recognize there is a vast difference … [Read more...]
The Sacred Hiding in Plain Sight
Texts for Preaching Excerpt from Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis. I undressed, dove into the sea, and swam. I felt the sacrament of baptism in all its deathless simplicity on that day, … [Read more...]
Lakefront Extravaganza
I wasn’t going to do this because I wrote about crows last week. Then I witnessed an osprey extravaganza. Rabia and I had just bid adieu to Olive and Brian, frequent morning pals along the lakefront. … [Read more...]
I Have A Question for Readers
Sometime in the next year I will begin a major overhaul of the subversivepreacher website, which includes a redirection of writing focus. What I know in advance, is that the weekly newspaper column, … [Read more...]
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