All Saints’: Force Multiplier
Link to Marie Howe poem, "My Dead Friends:" https://poets.org/poem/my-dead-friends Isn’t this the most wonderfully personal public intimacy -- All Saints’ Day I mean. We create this moment in time, one…
19 Pentecost: In Conflict with God
Scroll down for video version of the sermon Texts for Preaching Genesis 32:22-31 The same night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven…
17 Pentecost: Leaving the 100 Acre Woods
A video is available when you scroll to the bottom of the text I go away for one week and someone slips in two awful readings. Billy Collins is a…
9 Pentecost: Forget about worship…worry about where your treasure is
We should feel alarmed and threatened. Isaiah is telling us, with the voice of God on his lips no less, that formal, public worship should be eliminated. Luke is telling…
8 Pentecost: Pushing the pause button – or alt/delete
As most of you know, I had a traumatic event in May. The surgery I had to fix my back was followed in three days by an emergency surgery to…