For those who follow subversivepreacher sermons, this newspaper column is an echo of the Sunday sermon, but with a slant … [Read more...]
Leaving the 100 Acre Woods
A video is available when you scroll to the bottom of the text I go away for one week and someone slips in two awful readings. Billy Collins is a saving grace, however. Psalm 137 has an iconic … [Read more...]
Practicing Resurrection — no really
Here is what I know about this gospel story: John was terrified of doubt. And here is what I know about us: We live in an era of doubt. No, not an era, a miasma of doubt...a body bag of … [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...]
The Sermon in 500 Words for the General Public (Rather than Sunday’s Version)
I sometimes fear the younger generation will be deprived of the pleasures of hoeing; there is no knowing how many souls have been formed by this simple exercise… “Hoeing” by John Updike I … [Read more...]