This sermon is a bloody mess. Literally. This story from Genesis 15 depicts a bloody mess, and it is the mythology underneath a bloody mess. First of all, we should notice some huge problems … [Read more...]
Gratitude is Prime
I wish I could show you the photograph I took of my dog, Rabia, positioned like the Great Sphinx in front of the fireplace on a ten-degree morning. Behind her the gas fire roasting her backside, … [Read more...]
Ash Wednesday: Constitutionally Good, Economically Not So Much
One of my favorite poems, whose author is not known, goes like this (Slightly paraphrased): The sacred pearl.. has been bitten, priced, and strung around blasphemous necks; andthe Tree at the … [Read more...]
Cloud Dancing Without Wings
Honestly, I am more of a rabbi than a priest, although I wouldn’t stack up intellectually with most of the rabbis I have known. I say I am more rabbi than priest, because I am much more … [Read more...]
Re-inventing Christianity
I might have gotten in trouble with some of you last week because I went inside Luke’s story about Jesus and swung a wrecking ball around and re-interpreted the story from my own the perspective … [Read more...]
Don’t Turn Your Back on the Moment
“If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. If you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your … [Read more...]
Remember When They Got Mad at You?
Somewhere in the recesses of your life burrows the memory of a time when you angered your family. I do not know what you did, of course, but I am pretty sure whatever it was, they got doggone … [Read more...]
A Moment that Changed the History of the World
I preached on Nehemiah and Luke three years ago – the last time they surfaced for air. That was the Sunday I gave the now apocryphal sermon in which I said I could be a midwife for Trinity, or a … [Read more...]
In Search of the “Golden Number”
As I sat down to write this sermon, I wondered if there would be anyone to hear it given the dire predictions of a winter storm. But then I remembered there is a grand internet congregation … [Read more...]
Foxy’s Not Alone
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...]
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