“I know that my redeemer lives.” That line in Job seems pretty clear and it forms the heart of the anthem that begins the Episcopal burial liturgy. Clearly the Lectionary Committee that … [Read more...]
All Saints’ and Then Some
I read those dog-eared and familiar old words from the Gospel of Luke and started laughing. As if my preacher-life was passing before my eyes, thirty-nine years of varied and contradictory … [Read more...]
Wisdom v. Reaction
I am going to zero in on something I almost never talk about. See if you can figure out what it is before I get there. When I read that poem, “Hitchhiker” a dozen contradictory … [Read more...]
Get Ready to Rumble…with God!
Today, once again, the gospel reveals the uncomfortable dinner table argument between a radical first century Palestinian peasant and the well-educated upper class Westernized Christianity that … [Read more...]
Knowing
Creed. Belief. Faith. Creed comes directly from the Latin word, Credo. Credo, in Latin, means literally, “I believe.” So any time we say an affirmation of faith like the Nicene or Apostle’s … [Read more...]
Hope: Work For It
This is about hope. It is about hope in hard times when hope is hard work even for people who are by nature optimistic. It begins with a man and a story we might imagine has absolutely … [Read more...]
Risky Business
That story from the Gospel of Luke seems very confusing. The problem is that Luke has added a bunch of independent sayings to Jesus’ original parable, and in the editing and interpretive … [Read more...]
The End
I have a divided mind. I am going to describe it to you – metaphorically, it is a kind of Jeremiah/Jesus split. My first mind is not unlike Jeremiah’s rant we heard today, or that amazing and … [Read more...]
We Are The Known Not The Knower
In that passage from Luke this morning, Jesus drives us off the ledge like Thelma and Louise. He’s taking no prisoners and he clearly does not care what we think about his declaration. “Hate … [Read more...]
Peace be with you
I went to a laboratory school. It was kindergarten-through-high school in the same building, and, while a public school, it was also operated by the teacher’s college of the local university. I … [Read more...]
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