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...]
Soul-Weary
There is a condition called, “weariness.” While it has a physical manifestation known as being “bone-weary,” it is also a condition of the soul. Sometimes we become soul-weary. It can be a stage in … [Read more...]
Good Friday, Boiled Down
I want to invite us to do something that might seem odd or surprising coming from an ordained minister of the Church. I want us to try to let the story we just heard seep into us unfiltered by Church … [Read more...]