I want to tell you the tale of two prophetic moments. One came from a man in poor health in his mid-70s, and the other from a young teenager. First Paul. The first thing to note about Paul was … [Read more...]
Assimilating in Babylon
Texts for Preaching: Isaiah 49:1-7 and an excerpt from a speech Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered at St. John the Divine (NYC) on the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Brown v Board of … [Read more...]
Really, no really…
We understand something about water this week that perhaps we don’t often consider. As is so often true, nature opened our eyes. An atmospheric river in the heavens moving across the … [Read more...]
Black Holes and Schrodinger’s cat, Oh, and Jesus too!
I try to understand, I really do. I read and re-read about cool new information coming to us from the study of Black Holes. It was a New York Times article about Einstein’s own argument with … [Read more...]
Happy New Year!
Christmas 2022: Presents? No, presence…
A link to YouTube video version is available at the end of the text Right here, right now is the eye of the Christmas storm. I love it when we get to Christmas Eve and we get to be here. Here’s … [Read more...]
A good day for truth-telling…
Scroll down for a YouTube video version Fourth Sunday of Advent 2022. We are spitting distance from … [Read more...]
3 Advent: Trees
This is an Archive Sermon, from 2020, Year A in the Revised Common Lectionary. There is no video version this week. If I can be personal for a moment, I want to echo Wendell Berry’s poem about … [Read more...]
Reality Shift
A Youtube link for the video follows the text Let’s take this apart -- and then put it back together again. First of all, John the Baptist. He says to the leaders of the religion, ”...God is able … [Read more...]
A stout and burly trust
Picture this scene. Martin Luther King, Jr. sits by himself in an anteroom with his head in his hands knowing that assassins are prowling the perimeter of his life. Even so he must go forth into … [Read more...]
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