This column originally appeared in The Finger Lakes Times, as part of a weekly column, "Denim Spirit." But before that, it was a sermon (see post for 4/30/17). This is what a sermon looks like, … [Read more...]
On Preaching
Once, when going through a prolonged depression, I would mutter, “preaching is no job for a grown man (or woman).” Even when not depressed, I have at times quietly disparaged the profession I … [Read more...]
CHANGE
CHANGE For over a thousand years the Church has been a preservationist institution seeking to encase previous elements of its past - including architecture, worship, music, and doctrines - in the … [Read more...]
SHEPHERDNESS
Link to Lectionary Texts for Proper 11B: http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Pentecost/BProp11_RCL.html If you are using the Jeremiah tract with Mark, which I am, then the unifier is … [Read more...]
FOUR
No gratuitous intimacy, please. It is highly debatable that there is ever a time for significant personal self-disclosure from the pulpit but if there is then no one should be left with any doubt … [Read more...]