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Bilbo Baggins, TS Elliot, and Our Adventures

September 25, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This is an archive sermon from a 2004 Sunday evening Jazz worship in Buffalo, NY and there is no video version of it. “The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Adventure, Bilbo Baggins, T S Elliot

Queens and Kings, Oh My!

September 21, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

I do not mean any disrespect when I say this, but why did the death and burial of Queen Elizabeth occupy a hurricane-size space in the U.S. news media? (Why do hurricanes take up so much space for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Heritage, Royalty, The Episcopal Church

Contemplation — a rif on Wendell Berry

September 18, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Scroll to the bottom of the Sermon text for a YouTube version Jeremiah is grieving and Jesus is taking no prisoners. And I am not preaching on either of them. It is not just because I am a little … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: contemplation, The peace of wild things, Wendell Berry

This will seem utterly ridiculous, I know

September 11, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Scroll down for a video version of the sermon Texts for Preaching Exodus 32:7-14 The Lord said to Moses, "Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: open table, ridiculous, spiritual community

The Sacred Hiding in Plain Sight

September 4, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Texts for Preaching Excerpt from Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis.   I undressed, dove into the sea, and swam.  I felt the sacrament of baptism in all its deathless simplicity on that day, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Mystery, sacrament, Sacred

I Have A Question for Readers

August 29, 2022 By Cam Miller 57 Comments

Sometime in the next year I will begin a major overhaul of the subversivepreacher website, which includes a redirection of writing focus. What I know in advance, is that the weekly newspaper column, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Sermons Tagged With: Future, Questions, responses

How much of you is at the table?

August 28, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Video version follows the text below Texts for Preaching From “Listening to your life” by Frederick Buechner If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Buechner, Hospitality, open table

You…your current, your life

August 21, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This is a partial archive from 2004, but a still apt invitation for you to enter the current of your life. (There is no video version this week -- the preacher is taking a break) In the year 627 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: current of your life, God's dream for you, Jeremiah

Climate Change as a Metaphor for…

August 14, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Just like we get tired of bad news from the news media, I’m sure you are like me and get tired of bad news from the Sunday lectionary readings. We’ve been getting a lot of it lately. The punch … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: cause and effect, Climate change, metaphor

Forget about worship…worry about where your treasure is instead

August 7, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

We should feel alarmed and threatened. Isaiah is telling us, with the voice of God on his lips no less, that formal, public worship should be eliminated. Luke is telling us, on the voice of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: "Where our treasure is...", wisdom, worship

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