https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ Spring break of the last year of seminary, the bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis brought the four senior seminarians home for each of us interview … [Read more...]
To My Grandson, a Note in a Bottle
Ptolemy World Map 1467 To my grandson. My Dearest Declan, Just this week for the first time, you escaped your play blanket on your own. Your mom and dad celebrated it by texting us all a … [Read more...]
A Lens on Death
I know I just posted last Sunday's sermon, but I wanted to share a sermon I preached on Saturday, at the memorial for a friend and colleague, Rollin Norris, who lived the last years of his life … [Read more...]
Re-inventing Christianity
I might have gotten in trouble with some of you last week because I went inside Luke’s story about Jesus and swung a wrecking ball around and re-interpreted the story from my own the perspective … [Read more...]
It’s not about the legality of divorce, it is about the nature of marriage
Those readings from Job and Maya Angelou are juicy and wonderful: “We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy … [Read more...]
Recognizing One Another
I had a recent facetime call with a friend who is in seminary. She was exhilarated by the intellectual stimulation of learning about the Hebrew Scripture as well as New Testament … [Read more...]
Old Friends, Jesus & Charles
This sermon is about Jesus and his buddy, Charles Darwin. People might think they didn’t see eye-to-eye, but not so – though nearly two millennia apart, they were two peas in a pod. Darwin … [Read more...]
Jesus Calling Your Baby Ugly
Just so we can get a mild taste for what we are dealing with here, allow me to offend you if I can. Baptismis meaningless. Communionis silly. Confessionand Absolution are an empty … [Read more...]
Eat My Bread
I am going to begin with a made-up story, slide into ancient history, and end with what it all has to do with us. Once upon a time, there was a little Episcopal congregation located in a small … [Read more...]
Projection – spiritual and otherwise
The Gospel of Mark has opened the window on a very painful moment for Jesus and his family. So many Biblical stories reveal raw human encounters and struggles if we read them as they actually … [Read more...]