Text for Liturgical Poem: Briefly it enters and briefly speaks by Jane Kenyon https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49765/briefly-it-enters-and-briefly-speaks This is a strange sermon but it is … [Read more...]
“Sanctify”
So, the reading from the Book of Acts, the one where they pick a replacement by drawing straws, is either a really bad case of magical thinking or an example of typical Church conflict … [Read more...]
Soul-Weary
There is a condition called, “weariness.” While it has a physical manifestation known as being “bone-weary,” it is also a condition of the soul. Sometimes we become soul-weary. It can be a stage in … [Read more...]
Eunuch
Isn’t it amazing we can hang out in Church and talk about things like eunuchs and circumcision, as if we were talking about which way to cut avocados? I realize it is mild compared to HBO or what’s … [Read more...]
Core Strength
This sermon is about “core strength.” Core strength is a mainstream health concept these days, and the ever-popular disciplines of yoga, palates, cross-fit, and barre all promise to improve core … [Read more...]
Hovering Over A Moment That Cannot Be Captured
“Peace be with you…” Have you ever sat by yourself on the beach at the ocean, or walked along its foaming boundary, or stood sentry on a cliff overlooking its broiling brine? When you were there at … [Read more...]
The Day After Easter
The man told the two Mary’s and Salome, who were de facto disciples by the way, to let Peter and the others know where they could see Jesus again. “As always,” he might have said, “he’s a step ahead … [Read more...]
Good Friday, Boiled Down
I want to invite us to do something that might seem odd or surprising coming from an ordained minister of the Church. I want us to try to let the story we just heard seep into us unfiltered by Church … [Read more...]
Palm Sunday 2018 – An Archive
Poetry. If we read this story of Jesus’ celebrity and fame as it crashes and burns into the cinders of torture and death as prose then we will starve it of oxygen and all that gives it life. If next … [Read more...]
From the Archives for 5 Lent
No Numbing Lectionary Link for 5 Lent: http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/ Naked, dry bleached bones a hoarse whisper of a long ago death. Stench screams its rotten flesh … [Read more...]
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