Scroll down for link to YouTube version. On a yes day things are what they seem but on a no day the world might swing wrong. That’s not quite how Ralph Burns wrote the verses but it’s … [Read more...]
A Harvest Metaphor
A friend shared with me an image that won’t stop fluttering in my thoughts. Sometimes that is not such a good thing, but in this case it is a pleasure. Picture if you will, an intensely blue autumn … [Read more...]
Trust
Video version of this sermon can be found by scrolling down to the bottom Soren Kierkegaard made the observation about our ordinary human insanity, that we could only understand life … [Read more...]
Some Moments Call for a Poem
The Rev. Al Kershaw (1919-2001) was a Jazz historian as well as an ordained minister. A man of letters, some of which are held in collection by Southern Mississippi State University, also brought … [Read more...]
The Brutal Work of Forgiveness
VIDEO VERSION TEXT OF SERMON I am uncomfortable with this sermon. It is not the kind of thing that goes down smoothly or refreshes pleasantly. I just want you to know that because we are … [Read more...]
What I learned from Minnie Mouse
I knew a giant of a man who called himself Minnie Mouse. His hair was shoulder length and sprawled like straw, stiff and tangled. His beard too. Often he wore a tee shirt cut off just below the … [Read more...]
Jurassic Jesus
Video Version Sermon Text Matthew 18:15-20 Matthew made an editor’s rookie mistake. He has Jesus say, about those who don’t listen “even to the church” that they will be as … [Read more...]
New Review of Cairn
Ugliness and Beauty
Stop. Take a slow, deep breath. Fill your diaphragm first and then let it out slowly. Try it again, closing your eyes perhaps. Ah. There is a relentless car alarm blaring at us, emanating from … [Read more...]
The Beginning of God (according to Exodus 3:1-15)
Sermon Video Sermon Text We are Christians, but the reason we talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition is that we were Jews first. Jesus, who is the central figure of our religion – the … [Read more...]
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