Recognition, Advent 2021

December 19, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I worked most closely with Luke 1.39-55.

Advent 3, December 2021

December 12, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I worked most closely with Philippians 4.4-7.

Advent 2, 2021

December 5, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I worked most closely with Luke 3.1-6.

Advent 1, November 2021

November 28, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I worked most closely with Luke 21.25-36.

All Saints 2021

November 7, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Happy All Saints (transferred from Nov 1)! As I read this snippet of the raising of Lazarus, I heard an echo from the story of Ezekiel in the valley of Dry Bones. Then I worked in a little about knitting, because this is apparently my new All Saints theme. I worked with John 11:32-44 and […]

Apples, Thanksgiving 2021

October 10, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Happy Thanksgiving! How have you been part of community this year? I worked largely with the collect for Thanksgiving: Creator of the fruitful earth, you made us stewards of all things. Give us grateful hearts for all your goodness, and steadfast wills to use your bounty well, that the whole human family, today and in […]

Alone, October 2021

October 3, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

When Jesus talks about divorce, I always feel like I need to address it. Given that it’s the first time this passage has come up at this Church, I said this: I worked most closely with Mark 10.2-16

Ode to a Faithful Church: Rewriting Proverbs 31

September 15, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Every 3 years the Church reads Proverbs 31, which is a beautiful and misused passage. Three years ago, I spent time talking with parishioners about how this passage, used as a hymn of praise from a Jewish husband to his wife, would sound if we reworked it to be a song from Christ to his […]

God who Challenges, September 2021

September 5, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

This sermon is about Proverbs and brainteasers. (I would say more but we got a puppy this afternoon. Also why this is going up so late tonight.) Here’s a link to the texts.

Tradition, Care, and Struggle, August 2021

August 29, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The question about handwashing just hits differently in the middle of a pandemic. Which can’t be a whole sermon. But it did help shape this sermon. Listen: I worked most closely with Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23.

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