An attempted legislative coup d'é·tat preceded the mob action that overran the so-called “People’s House” in the nation’s capital. The mob was commissioned by the occupant of the White House, Donald … [Read more...]
Who Makes Meaning?
A Link for this Sermon in video format follows below In the beginning… In the beginning… was the word was formless void was light was the spirit moving over the deep was a big bang. In … [Read more...]
If you wanted to know about hope…
Snow Anne Sexton Snow, blessed snow, comes out of the sky like bleached flies. The ground is no longer naked. The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears … [Read more...]
Christmas Eve: Shh…the veil is thinning
A YouTube Video Version Follows (keep scrolling) Shh…the cervix of the rational world is growing thin, making way for us to be born into the mystical dimension of a cosmos cluttered with more … [Read more...]
In the aftermath of an angel
Today is a reflection on the Gospel for 4 Advent, Luke’s story about the angel letting Mary know what’s about to happen to her. I am going to put that story up against the poem titled, … [Read more...]
Shake the tree and see what falls out
SERMON TEXT (Scroll Down for YouTube Link) I am done with John the Baptist. He has a place in our story but the lectionary makes it way too prominent for this time of year - or any time for that … [Read more...]
Shh. Listen.
SERMON TEXT (Scroll to the bottom for the YouTube video) Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem… Do you hear it? Shh. Listen now. We are in the presence of … [Read more...]
Where to Stand
SERMON TEXT (Scroll to bottom for YouTube Link) From the Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton I in particular. “…Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point … [Read more...]
About Separation, Limitations, and Transformations
TEXT OF SERMON (Scroll to the bottom for the YouTube version) I want to notice the obvious contrast of sheep with goats in Matthew’s emphatically eschatological sermon - by which I mean … [Read more...]
In Between
SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR VIDEO VERSION You might imagine that preaching is as easy as eating an apple fritter with a hot cup of coffee. Sometimes that is true. Other times it is a rassling match - a … [Read more...]
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