This sermons appears in a video format on the subversivepreacher FaceBook page. All I have to say, is this is a really inconvenient time for Palm Sunday and Holy Week. I mean, who wants … [Read more...]
Naming the stranger at the table
I suddenly recognized a face I couldn’t quite put my finger on (this is a metaphor, by the way). My congregation has been having a Sunday morning coffee hour via Zoom, and this past week someone … [Read more...]
BONES
We are in the endangered days of a global pandemic when we are navigating uncertainty and acting in ways we never have before. We are alive in dangerous times – not only for our bodies and our … [Read more...]
Power
It was an early morning COVID-world walk, just me and my six-year old dog with terminal puppiness. The aim was to relieve her bodily needs and empty my log-jammed mind. Coming from the railroad … [Read more...]
We know stuff
Text for Preaching: John 9:1-41 (Cam’s Revised Version) On one particular Sabbath Jesus and his disciples got into an argument with the Temple authorities and narrowly escaped being stoned by … [Read more...]
A Brief Case for the Tree to Replace the Cross as our Symbol of Christianity
Some Observations in the Time of Pandemic
Here we are in a strange warp, suddenly hyper-aware of how connected we are at the very moment we have been driven into isolation. To those of us who gather around the prophet Jesus and the example of … [Read more...]
The Fast of Social Distancing
We have a great big, juicy gospel story in front of us but the elephant in the room is the bad-boy with slurping the corona. I am going to give the elephant a drink and then take a bath in the … [Read more...]
Hobos, Immigrants, and Covid-19, Oh No!
When I was a child growing up in Muncie, Indiana, we lived across the street from some college dormitories and a very large Presbyterian church. Behind those buildings were acres and acres of … [Read more...]
A word to leaders of churches about preparing for the future
This is a reprint of an article that appears in Episcopal Cafe (3/8/20). … [Read more...]
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