Writings and Sermons
Link:Faith, Doubt, and Community Summary of what I was saying and why: This is always a fun text for me. The perennial question of how unquestioning faith is or should be is one worth revisiting. This year Steve Pankey wrote about what the Greek actually says and I started thinking. There are plenty of people, […]
Read MoreThe post-Easter work log is competing with the post-Easter exhaustion, so this week we have a sermon round-up. My sermons: Exposed Feet, Maundy Thursday How Incarnation Ends, Good Friday Standing Risen in Baptismal Waters, Easter Vigil Other sermons: Priest Gunn The Great Vigil of Easter: Do not be afraid Priest Pankey “It was unbelievable. Too […]
Read MoreLink:The Glory of Jesus Christ Summary of what I was saying and why: Palm Sunday is the beginning of the challenge of Holy Week preaching. The texts and liturgies almost do preach themselves and yet I do feel a need to voice where I believe my community is amongst the texts. Palm and Passion Sunday […]
Read MoreLink: Expensive Misunderstandings Summary of what I was saying and why: Paul gets a bad reputation. At least when I hang out in liberal or cynical circles. That’s where I started. Then I started thinking about Mary and the hidden story we don’t know about this nard. What did it cost her to anoint Jesus’s […]
Read MoreDue to a Church swap this week, I was behind the altar but not in the pulpit across town. So no sermon. Here are some of my favorites from around the interwebs. A lot about chicken and stars: Priest Lightcap reminds us that Jesus is the “the mama hen who will place herself between the […]
Read MoreLink: Knowing our story Summary of what I was saying and why: After everything that last week was, I didn’t know where I was going with with this week’s sermon. But I kept hearing echoes of remember who you are. Coupled with the reading from Deuteronomy and the experience of growing up in Montana this […]
Read MoreLink: The Flawed Inner Circle Summary of what I was saying and why: Last week I had to announce that my parish is closing. As I was trying to write that letter I knew that part two, sort of unofficially, would be this sermon. I knew how the letter would end. I knew that part […]
Read MoreLink: Dogs, cats, and love; a sermon for Epiphany 4 2-3-13 Summary of what I was saying and why: 1 Corinthians 13 is a passage we usually hear at weddings. I wanted a way to approach the passage and love that didn’t give everyone immediate wedding flashbacks, especially because not everyone is married. So, as […]
Read MorePart Three: Other Preachers It’s hard to avoid this being a list of links. But I’ve found some preachers I enjoy and certainly would have appreciated something like this existing at several different points in my life. So, here are the sites on my sermon list: Mostly Weekly My Sermons, audio Bishop Rickel, Diocese of […]
Read MorePart 2: Did it Work and What I’ve learned? Did it work? I think so? Or, rather, I can’t fully answer. Is my preaching better now than it was nine months ago? Maybe. Go listen and let me know what you think. When I started this I wrote, “I believe I am a good preacher. […]
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