Reflection on readings for 7 Pentecost (Revised Common Lectionary) YouTube video version follows the text When we have stories that feature John the Baptist like we do today, I repeatedly feel the … [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...]
The Beginning of God (according to Exodus 3:1-15)
Sermon Video Sermon Text We are Christians, but the reason we talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition is that we were Jews first. Jesus, who is the central figure of our religion – the … [Read more...]
Primeval Atom
You will have to determine if this sermon is about the Big Bang or angels in my head. From time to time someone will ask me why I always dig around and poke things when it comes to … [Read more...]
An Overgrown Metaphor
My neighbor’s peonies blossomed long before mine and are bigger and more vibrant. What gives? Perhaps she is better than me, and that means her peonies are superior too. I mean, maybe she has done … [Read more...]
A Bloody Mess
This sermon is a bloody mess. Literally. This story from Genesis 15 depicts a bloody mess, and it is the mythology underneath a bloody mess. First of all, we should notice some huge problems … [Read more...]
Evil Part Two: We don’t want to know what absence would feel like
Presence…God has to be present in order to influence change. If God were not present - absent - our experience of life would be radically different. Strangely, presence and absence can be equally … [Read more...]
Evil Part One: An Email thread post-Paris
This is a two-part rant that probably does not belong the week before Christmas, but neither do mass shootings or national political leaders vomiting their own ugliness on the rest of us belong in the … [Read more...]
We won’t encounter God in the past or the future
Summer arrived in mid-August. Perhaps it was the severity and length of last winter that so raised the expectations for summer that even the most sublime growing season could not fill the empty space … [Read more...]