Writings and Sermons
The lessons for Ash Wednesday can be found here. I worked most closely with Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21. Lent is a time for re-examination and repentance. One tool for helping with this is a Rule of Life. Also I mention funny trivia about Benedict and the Benedictine Rule. (There will be a few moments of silence […]
Read MoreThe lessons for the Last Sunday after Epiphany can be found here. Light changes everything. The light of the Transfiguration. Candlelight. (There will be a few moments of silence before the sermon begins. Thanks for your patience.) Listen: Epiphany Last, 2012
Read MoreI tell people that my life is a juggling act where the goal is not to drop the same ball every week. If you’ve ever seen me (attempt to) juggle, you’d have an appreciation for just how appropriate this image is. Time management is challenging. For all of us. A Google search for “time management” […]
Read MoreThe lessons for this Sunday can be found here. I worked most closely with 2 Kings 5:1-14 and Mark 1:40-45. Naaman and the (disobedient) leper both come to a difficult realization. Healing isn’t about them. Listen: Epiphany 6, 2012
Read MoreThe Lessons for this Sunday can be found here. Isaiah talks about the glory of God, Jesus heals Simon’s mother-in-law, and I toss in a Heinlein quote. N.B. The Heinlein quote comes from Time Enough for Love. Listen: Epiphany 5, 2012
Read MoreAnother round has broken out in the gender and Church debates. Also known as the “should I be allowed to do my job” debates. For the record, I don’t anticipate an end to this debate, or even an uneasy truce within my lifetime. The fact that women are allowed to preach, teach, and celebrate the […]
Read MoreThe Lessons for this Sunday can be found here. I worked most closely with Psalm 111. How are we to praise God in an assembly of the upright when we know that we often aren’t? And yet we come together every week, as we should. N.B. The quotes are close but not exact. My memory […]
Read MoreThe lessons for this Sunday can be found here.I worked most closely with Jonah 3:1-5, 10. Jonah spent 3 days walking across Ninevah and the whole city repented. Not bad…. (There will be a few moments of silence before the sermon starts. Thank you for your patience.) Listen: Epiphany 3, 2012
Read MoreI read. All sorts and types of things. I read people who agree with me, people who disagree with me, people who almost or mostly do one or the other. I read for work. The Bible, I hope obviously; liturgies and about them; sermons, my own and others; theology; social and political commentary; current events; […]
Read MoreThe lessons for this Sunday can be found here. I worked most closely with 1 Samuel 3:1-20 and 1 Corinthians 6:12-20. Samuel (and Eli’s sons), Paul, and Martin Luther King Jr. “All things are lawful for me but not all things are beneficial.” Paul is making an ageless point. The pursuit of what is beneficial […]
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