4 Advent: Where hope is found
A video version can be found by scrolling to the end of the text Micah was a prophetic oracle of both judgment and hope, and he announced the coming destruction…
Christmas Eve 2019: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas. On one level Christmas has been hidden in the Miller house this year. That is because we are moving and we expected to be in our new home…
3 Advent, Year A, 2019: Is this sermon about hope?
If I can be personal for a moment, I want to echo Wendell Berry’s poem about trees: “They are the advent they await.” Advent, an arrival or emergence, or as…
16 Pentecost: Hope
This is about hope. It is about hope in hard times when hope is hard work even for people who are by nature optimistic. It begins with a man and…
6 Easter 2019: A Note in a Bottle
Ptolemy World Map 1467 To my grandson. My Dearest Declan, Just this week for the first time, you escaped your play blanket on your own. Your mom and dad celebrated…