I am going to do two things I normally do not do in a sermon. The first is to read an extended bit of prose, and the second is to “proclaim.” I know preachers are supposed to proclaim, but I … [Read more...]
How to Win Back Your Heart (Not for the Faint of Heart)
There is an experience in seminary I want to slice open and so share its fruit with you. But I doubt I can do it justice. It has to do with the Bible – with entering into the text for the first … [Read more...]
A Definite Maybe
This sermon should be entitled, “What’s wrong with maybe?” “You wouldn’t believe what once or twice I have seen,” Mary Oliver writes, and she tells us the world is wider than the “rigid house … [Read more...]
Christmas Eve 2018: Gulping Milk and Knowing Presence
Merry Christmas. This may not seem like a Christmas sermon at first, but wait for it. When we were small the world was liquid and grown-ups poured it into us, sometimes in small … [Read more...]
Bite into Hope
Oh, Anne Sexton, I do love you so: “…The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. There is hope. There is hope everywhere. I bite it… There is hope…Today God gives … [Read more...]
It’s A Wonder
You hold a baby in your arms and rock her or him, and their fat little face looks up into yours. You look into that sweet face…and wonder. You wonder. You wonder about what she will be when … [Read more...]
God is Manna
Well, preparing for today was humbling and challenging. Last week, inspired by the birth of my grandson, I reached for the intangible. I sought to capture an experience rather than define or … [Read more...]
Quivering Over the Unity of Past-Present-Future
Well, there is nothing to bring on Advent like waiting for a baby to be born, and nothing harder than trying to write a sermon than when your daughter is in labor. Young Declan Miller-Uueda was … [Read more...]
This is personal
This is personal. It turns out that in the age of Amazon and Kindle, 99% of authors must depend upon their own network of friends, family, and colleagues to not only buy their books, but also to … [Read more...]
Spiritual Symmetry
There is a phobia or syndrome whose name I’ve forgotten, in which anxiety is centered in the dread of a human structure collapsing. When looking at a bridge for example, or a tall building, the … [Read more...]
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