Alleluias, joyous and wilted

Somewhere around the 4th or 5th week of Easter, I find myself remembering my friend, classmate, and colleague the Rev Cody Unterseher. I think about Cody not because the anniversary of his death is around this time of the year (April 25). I remember Cody because of what happened on Facebook in 2010. Cody and […]

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Dancing, Stretchers, and Sheep, a sermon for Easter 4 2013

The lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with John 10: 22-30. Easter 4 is Good Shepherd Sunday. Which is hard for us to hear with depth. The poem is “A Divine Invitation” by Hafiz, from I Heard God Laughing.

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Easter Sermon Round-Up

The 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 […]

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Standing Risen in Baptismal Waters, Easter 2013

The lessons for the Easter Vigil can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with Romans 6:3-11. “Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.” […]

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Easter 6, 2012

The lessons for Easter 6 can be found at this link: Easter 6 lessons. I worked most closely with John 15:9-17. We are chosen as friends. And so we are part of a community that chooses new friends through Baptism. (There will be a few moments of silence before the sermon begins. Thank you for […]

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Easter 5, 2012

The lessons for this Sunday can be found at this link: Easter 5 lessons. I worked most closely with 1 John 4:7-21. Love is one of those words that gets used a lot, especially in this reading. So much that we can forget what it means, particularly for Christians. (There will be a few moments […]

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Easter 2, 2012

The lessons for Easter 2 can be found at this link: Easter 2 Lessons. I worked most closely with John 20:19-31. Recovery and Resurrection. How we learn to love like God. Listen: Easter 2, 2012

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Easter, 2012

The lessons for the Easter Vigil can be found at this link: Easter Vigil lessons. “Alleluia! Christ is risen!” also means “Everything has changed” Listen: Easter, 2012

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