NOTE TO READER: If you happened to listen to or read last Sunday's sermon, this newspaper column may sound familiar. I shrank it down to 500 words (or so), which is my limit for the newspaper, and … [Read more...]
A Season of Grief
A video version of this sermon follows the text “When he trawled so wide he should’ve trawled deeper.” ~From “Fishermen” by Francis Harvey Oh, heck yes! Jesus trawled way too wide and would have … [Read more...]
A word about grief
~A video version follows the text ~ This sermon did not leave from the station I expected, nor did it arrive at the destination I was aiming for. Just so you know. Last week we wrung out our … [Read more...]
A Spirit of Community
First of all, Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, whichever is best for you! This is not Christmas 2020, thank goodness. The only reason it’s not is the widespread accessibility of vaccinations. … [Read more...]
Boundaries
Texts for preaching are from 17 Pentecost in the Revised Common Lectionary Video version appears below Well, here we are, left with Jeremiah’s complaint and the “Whose the greatest” … [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...]
A Shot at Connecting
“I got mine.” It sounds like an awful personal injury law firm commercial in which a supposed client crows at getting a financial settlement, as if it was a birthright. But instead, I am referring to … [Read more...]
Beloved Community
Any true community event has an army of people behind it knitting things together, underneath it holding up parts that sag, and all around it picking up loose ends. So too the Martin Luther King, Jr. … [Read more...]
A Wedding!
When my oldest daughter was three years old she was passed from lap to lap in the parish hall of the church I was serving. Each Sunday between the early and late morning worship services, an … [Read more...]
Finding Home
Spot, Sweetness 7, Café Aroma, Newport Natural, Opus. Opus is the latest coffee house in my life. A town is not home until those places that make it feel like home tether us to the earth there. For … [Read more...]