15 A Pentecost: Forgiveness and not forgiveness
Well, here I am with a brand-spanking new knee but I am still learning how to walk. So don’t push me too hard or I’ll fall over and not be…
Three Pentecost/Proper 8C: The Movement
Spring break of the last year of seminary, the bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis brought the four senior seminarians home for each of us interview in the same four…
5 Epiphany B, 2018: Squeezed Between Mom & Mother-in-Law
Find the Gospel text from Mark at this link: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu//texts.php?id=64 This sermon is about the healing nature of tension. Yes, you heard that correctly: the healing nature of tension. I begin…
Proper 18A 2017: Reconciliation
TEXTS FOR PREACHING Liturgical Reading ("To My Mother" by Wendell Berry): http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/05/09 Gospel (Matthew 18:15-20): http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=158 SERMON In a recent Finger Lakes Times column, I pointed to 1968, highlighting a few events…
5 Lent, Year A, 2017: Entombed
Link to readings for 5 Lent: http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=28 I have never preached on Lazarus. Any time this story has come up, I preached on the alternative – which usually is from the…