Economists don’t measure costs in the Gross National Product formula. Only growth. Any action, behavior, or labor within any relationship, organization, or community has a corresponding cost to it’s … [Read more...]
Hospitality and Prayer
However many people there are listening to this sermon is how many opinions there are about prayer -- and what it is or is not. I do not know. I know nothing about prayer. I pray but I don’t … [Read more...]
19 and 97
I was on vacation and didn’t want to read about Joe Manchin assisting our mass suicide by killing climate change legislation. I didn’t want to read about Russian brutality in Ukraine, nor the systemic … [Read more...]
Defense and offense, yin and yang, blood and oxygen…
This is a subversivepreacher archive (6 Pentecost 2011) Text only this week. Let’s have a show of hands between Martha’s and Mary’s. Martha’s are the ones who, as Jesus says, dither about and are … [Read more...]
Hey, what are all these people doing here?
I never lived in a vacation destination before. Geneva is rocking. Have you looked into a local hotel lately -- just one of the standard ones, not a boutique inn or anything. The hotels must be … [Read more...]
Dig deeper…
A video version of this sermon follows the written text This is a real sermon this week. By that, I mean standing back and letting the texts speak for themselves without a lot of … [Read more...]
Blowing in the wind
“I am not flying the flag this year” he said, scrunching up his face as from a bad smell. “We just can’t...” she finished, or something like it. It surprised me. A dozen years my senior, they are … [Read more...]
“The end is different than the beginning…”
View a video version of this sermon by scrolling down below the sermon text I have to warn you, this is one of those strange, abstract highly metaphoric sermons. You will either get it or you … [Read more...]
On the porch with the dog
Here is the problem. It is Monday morning and a sunny sixty-nine degrees. A fresh westerly breeze is sweeping my plant-and-flower-surround porch where I am writing. Dog Rabia, is asleep within the … [Read more...]
Little prophets and other matters
Scroll down for video version Don’t you just love euphemisms? Check out that first line of Luke’s Gospel: ”When the days drew near for him to be received up...” By “received up” he must have … [Read more...]
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