For video version, scroll to bottom Sermon Texts: John 20:19-31 and... Small Wire by Anne Sexton My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin … [Read more...]
A Sun, A Poem, A Short Sermon
Link to the poem, "The Sun" by Mary Oliver: http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_thesun.html For the video version, scroll down I begin with that Mary Oliver poem: “...and have … [Read more...]
Good Friday: Stories are filters for making sense
When someone dies we need to make sense out of it. When it is George Floyd or Martin Luther King, Jr. or Bobby Kennedy or Abraham Lincoln, or a refugee child washing up on the shore with the … [Read more...]
This is not about once upon a time, it is about now
A video format follows the written text of this sermon... There is an argument that bubbles just under the surface of Palm Sunday and Holy Week - at least among some clergy and planners of … [Read more...]
Reversal Wisdom
The YouTube video follows the text While the story we heard from John this morning, does not appear in the other gospels, one of it’s sentences does and is clearly a preserved Jesus saying. Here … [Read more...]
Snakeskin and the Secret Gospel of Cam
I am going to do something Gnostic-like, since the Lenten Book Study has been reading the Gnostic Gospels. I have “discovered” a new ancient manuscript that includes a strange … [Read more...]
Hillel and Jesus, Practice and Transformation…
“We live on only one side of the world,” Kenneth Patchen concluded his poem. ”Through the flames I can see the lowered faces of creatures that watch us in amused love. We live on only one side … [Read more...]
Good at right-angle with good
A video version is found at the end of the sermon text I have a friend who, with a younger wife, had his first child at age 49. He was both joyful and anxious in anticipation of having kids in … [Read more...]
A blushing request
subversivepreacher.org is first and foremost, a ministry. Honestly, it is only a ministry. By ministry I mean literally the meaning of the two Greek words that compose its root: to be sent and to … [Read more...]
Don’t wait for the angels…
Scroll down for Video version I’m starting all over again. This is a second stab at a sermon, the first one just didn’t seem right. It may have been okay if we weren’t in our eleventh month of … [Read more...]
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