I am out of the pulpit this week but an old friend asked me to send her a particular archive sermon, and so I am posting it. This has nothing to do with the lectionary readings for today and is out of … [Read more...]
Baggage
I once served a church located on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. I don’t know if it is still true, but when I was there in the 1990’s there were a lot of homeless … [Read more...]
Jesus Calling Your Baby Ugly
Just so we can get a mild taste for what we are dealing with here, allow me to offend you if I can. Baptismis meaningless. Communionis silly. Confessionand Absolution are an empty … [Read more...]
The Aging of Faith
I am going to leave those readings alone for the most part, and allow them to speak for themselves. I think they do, especially the first and second ones. The third one, which we have been hearing … [Read more...]
Eat My Bread
I am going to begin with a made-up story, slide into ancient history, and end with what it all has to do with us. Once upon a time, there was a little Episcopal congregation located in a small … [Read more...]
Archive: Three Years Ago (2015)
Link to liturgical poem: http://poetry365.tumblr.com/post/111051457/adams-complaint-denise-levertov Link to Lectionary texts: … [Read more...]
The Economy of God
As I was mulling over the whole Jesus and “bread” thing the Pledge of Allegiance kept creeping into my thoughts. It was kind of like an earworm – a tune you can’t get out of your head, and I … [Read more...]
Hearing Voices
So today was supposed to be a bread theme, as you may have guess from the readings. The biblical readings are appointed each week by the powers that be, and today has “bread” written all over … [Read more...]
The practice of self-orbit and the practice of leaning into compassion
If you ask me, which you didn’t, Jesus was not interested in being a shepherd. In fact, I do not think Jesus saw himself as a shepherd and he definitely didn’t want to be the guy following along … [Read more...]
Not A Sermon
Today is the day. Thank you to Unsolicited Press for featuring this interview on their website. Since I am not preaching today, I invite you to follow this link for a more personal snapshot of me as a … [Read more...]
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