I wonder whether you feel exhausted by the news cycle—by the sheer pace of things that are happening around us. Just this past week, the Prime Minister of the UK…
I learned a new phrase this past week from a new friend, and it falls into that category of words and phrases that I wish I’d known a long time before…
As we get closer to the end of the church year, it feels a bit as though we get closer to the end of time. At least it sounds a…
There are two ideas in contention in the readings this morning, and they are both ideas about authority. Specifically, they are ideas about spiritual authority, and about how authority should…
We hear again this morning the old, tragic story of that rich man—the one who can’t quite accept what Jesus asks of disciples. It is a story that appears in…
We have it covered from A to Z this morning. We have two candidates for baptism this morning, Amara and Zayden, who are siblings, and between them they encompass the…
Out of all the Sundays we gather together here in the year, this is almost my favorite. One of my top three. Easter Sunday, of course, and All Saints’ Sunday,…
This is an unusual Sunday for us, this Sunday in the midst of the Labor Day holiday, and so I hope I might have your permission to preach a somewhat…
Only in John's gospel do we hear the Apostle Philip speak any lines at all, and they are enough to get him a bit part in any play that would…
One of the differences between our two parishes, at least this summer, is the way we approach the lectionary. First of all, as a person who lives rather closer to…