Six-thirty in the morning is dark again, an envelope of stillness as dog and I walk beneath the canopy of trees along the street. No other human or canine life was visible this morning, suppressed … [Read more...]
Old Friends, Jesus & Charles
This sermon is about Jesus and his buddy, Charles Darwin. People might think they didn’t see eye-to-eye, but not so – though nearly two millennia apart, they were two peas in a pod. Darwin … [Read more...]
The Sermon in 500 Words for the General Public (Rather than Sunday’s Version)
I sometimes fear the younger generation will be deprived of the pleasures of hoeing; there is no knowing how many souls have been formed by this simple exercise… “Hoeing” by John Updike I … [Read more...]
Out of the Saddle
I am out of the pulpit this week but an old friend asked me to send her a particular archive sermon, and so I am posting it. This has nothing to do with the lectionary readings for today and is out of … [Read more...]
Just a little ice cream walk
On Labor Day weekend, with visitors from Maine staying with us, we made our way down to the Farmer’s Market and foraged for breakfast while also shopping for dinner. With Finger Lakes roastery coffee … [Read more...]
Baggage
I once served a church located on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. I don’t know if it is still true, but when I was there in the 1990’s there were a lot of homeless … [Read more...]
Quieting the Volcano
Honestly, what I want to write about is the travesty going on in the Senate. I mean the naked abuse of power by Republicans that began when they used their majority to refuse the legitimate Supreme … [Read more...]
Jesus Calling Your Baby Ugly
Just so we can get a mild taste for what we are dealing with here, allow me to offend you if I can. Baptismis meaningless. Communionis silly. Confessionand Absolution are an empty … [Read more...]
The Aging of Faith
I am going to leave those readings alone for the most part, and allow them to speak for themselves. I think they do, especially the first and second ones. The third one, which we have been hearing … [Read more...]
Aristotle, Wittgenstein, and Rudy
“Truth isn’t truth” is just too ripe and juicy not to write about this week. Especially because, surprisingly, I might agree with Rudy Giuliani. Only those in the midst of a personal news blackout … [Read more...]
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