Sermon Texts: John 15:9-17 (https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu//texts.php?id=91) and "Perhaps the World Ends Here" by Joy Harjo … [Read more...]
“From Blossoms” to bread and wine – an Easter season reflection
Sermon Text: “From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43012/from-blossoms A video version of this sermon follows the text From blossoms - those wafer-thin pedals of … [Read more...]
Seeing the Earth from the Moon
A video version of this text follows below As you may know, if you have heard me before, I like to dig around in the context of the gospel to see if it offers us a good perspective from which … [Read more...]
To cry over a single blade of grass
For a video version scroll to the bottom of the following text Texts: Luke 24:36-48 and "What the Living Do" by Marie Howe In that poem we heard, Marie Howe is talking to her deceased brother, … [Read more...]
Small Wire
For video version, scroll to bottom Sermon Texts: John 20:19-31 and... Small Wire by Anne Sexton My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin … [Read more...]
A Sun, A Poem, A Short Sermon
Link to the poem, "The Sun" by Mary Oliver: http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_thesun.html For the video version, scroll down I begin with that Mary Oliver poem: “...and have … [Read more...]
Good Friday: Stories are filters for making sense
When someone dies we need to make sense out of it. When it is George Floyd or Martin Luther King, Jr. or Bobby Kennedy or Abraham Lincoln, or a refugee child washing up on the shore with the … [Read more...]
This is not about once upon a time, it is about now
A video format follows the written text of this sermon... There is an argument that bubbles just under the surface of Palm Sunday and Holy Week - at least among some clergy and planners of … [Read more...]
Reversal Wisdom
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...]
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