For children, life is a justice issue. For many adults that never changes. “Did I get what I deserve?” “Did I get my reward? “Did I get my share?” My mom was a bit obsessive when it came to … [Read more...]
The Absurdity of Hell Anywhere But of Our Own Making
Link to Lectionary Readings: http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu This is a very ordinary, old sermon about mercy and forgiveness. It is no big deal really, just the kind of stuff we have … [Read more...]
Reconciliation
TEXTS FOR PREACHING Liturgical Reading ("To My Mother" by Wendell Berry): http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/05/09 Gospel (Matthew … [Read more...]
God
800 BCE, first known mention of the God of Israel Text for Preaching Exodus 3:1-15 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the … [Read more...]
Learning From A Perfectly Human and Imperfect Jesus
Link to text for preaching (Gospel of Matthew): http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=155 This sermon, like the story in Matthew that we heard, is bound to challenge an assumption … [Read more...]
This is what democracy looks like!
IMG_0201 Technology problems kept me from posting in real time but here are a few images to offer a sense of what half a million PLUS felt like. So many people in so many cities and towns, and … [Read more...]
When the wilderness is the promise land, and the promise land a wilderness
Water is never just about chemistry any more than Rivers are only about geography. To name a river is to evoke memory and meaning beyond its banks. The Potomac is the nation’s capital. The … [Read more...]
Christmas & New Years
For as big of a deal as it is, both in the Church and in the economy, Christmas does not get much attention. Really, if you think about it, the most the actual story gets is twenty minutes or … [Read more...]
God Makes It IN Alive!
Merry Christmas. In the next fourteen minutes we are going to zig and zag from Geneva, to stars and light beyond our solar system, back to Bethlehem, and then to Humpty Dumpty, and to Geneva all … [Read more...]
What we thought we thought, may have been more than a thought
4th Sunday of Advent Archive Edition When you were little the world was liquid and they poured it into you in small doses and gulps even. You swallowed everything. How to tell time. Why … [Read more...]