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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
How much of you is at the table?
Video version follows the text below Texts for Preaching From “Listening to your life” by Frederick Buechner If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea … [Read more...]
You…your current, your life
This is a partial archive from 2004, but a still apt invitation for you to enter the current of your life. (There is no video version this week -- the preacher is taking a break) In the year 627 … [Read more...]
Climate Change as a Metaphor for…
Just like we get tired of bad news from the news media, I’m sure you are like me and get tired of bad news from the Sunday lectionary readings. We’ve been getting a lot of it lately. The punch … [Read more...]
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