The YouTube video follows the text While the story we heard from John this morning, does not appear in the other gospels, one of it’s sentences does and is clearly a preserved Jesus saying. Here … [Read more...]
Snakeskin and the Secret Gospel of Cam
I am going to do something Gnostic-like, since the Lenten Book Study has been reading the Gnostic Gospels. I have “discovered” a new ancient manuscript that includes a strange … [Read more...]
Hillel and Jesus, Practice and Transformation…
“We live on only one side of the world,” Kenneth Patchen concluded his poem. ”Through the flames I can see the lowered faces of creatures that watch us in amused love. We live on only one side … [Read more...]
Good at right-angle with good
A video version is found at the end of the sermon text I have a friend who, with a younger wife, had his first child at age 49. He was both joyful and anxious in anticipation of having kids in … [Read more...]
A blushing request
subversivepreacher.org is first and foremost, a ministry. Honestly, it is only a ministry. By ministry I mean literally the meaning of the two Greek words that compose its root: to be sent and to … [Read more...]
Don’t wait for the angels…
Scroll down for Video version I’m starting all over again. This is a second stab at a sermon, the first one just didn’t seem right. It may have been okay if we weren’t in our eleventh month of … [Read more...]
You
The video format of this sermon can be found by scroll to the end of the text Today is the Last Sunday of Epiphany and this is a reflection on the “Transfiguration” story in the gospel of … [Read more...]
Sneaking out the back door
TEXTS Dove that ventured outside by Rainer Maria Rilke Dove that ventured outside, flying far from the dovecote: housed and protected again, one with the day, the night, knows what … [Read more...]
What are your demons afraid of?
A video version can be found by scrolling to the end of the text 4 Epiphany: A reflection on Mark 1:21-28 To pick up on the theme of story-telling from last week, whoever wrote the Gospel of … [Read more...]
Awakening
To view the video version scroll to the bottom of the text These two stories from Jonah and Mark, are, well, stories. For all we know they may have actually happened but we also know that … [Read more...]
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