“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life.” John 1:1-4 Last week I challenged […]
Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:17 To read the headlines about climate change would be to see the crisis in which we are currently living solely as a crisis of science and technology. Fix […]
Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration, which falls on August 6th every year, though we usually only celebrate it if it falls on a Sunday, as it has this year. It isn’t the only day in the year that we hear the story of Jesus’ transfiguration, however. We also hear this story every year […]
“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” Mustard […]
A friend and I were talking about this summer’s weather recently, and she decided that the summer should be called 2023: the summer nothing would dry. But I had another title, 2023: the summer of the weed. I don’t know what your yard looks like, but I fear that by fall the weeds will have […]
I’m not one to give my sermons titles, but if I were to give this sermon a title it would be either, “Wounded People Wound People,” or “Heal Yourself and You Heal the World.” To me these are the same titles you could give to most of the Book of Genesis, particularly when we get […]
Abraham is the father of three major religions. We know him as the faithful man who answered God’s call at the age of 75 to leave his native land and to travel with his wife to an unknown land. We know him as the man who had a son when he was well past the […]
As I read our scripture passages for today, I found myself thinking about systems and the tendency of systems to do everything they can to remain the same or to achieve “homeostasis.” It took me back to my high school biology class when we learned about all the ways that the human body maintains a […]
About a month ago, I attended the Diocese of Maine’s annual clergy conference. For two days we got to soak in the wisdom of Dr. Catherine Meeks. Dr. Meeks is an Episcopal layperson and the executive director of The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, located in Atlanta, Georgia. She is clearly a woman […]
I was recently reading a sermon written by the Episcopal priest and author, Barbara Brown Taylor and there was an idea from the sermon that has stayed with me and seemed particularly relevant as I read our passage from acts for this morning. She was speaking about the times when we feel God is absent […]