Saint Paul was a man of tremendous ambition. We have a museum-quality idea of saints that preserves them for history in a sort of cotton wool halo of meek-and-mild perfection.…
The first of a summer preaching series on the distinctive marks of Christian communities. We have been doing this for so long, this gathering together of our two parishes for…
The Christian faith is a seemingly simple and yet remarkably difficult thing. It is easy to say what it is about; it is about love, the idea that God is…
This was going to be a sermon about forgiveness, and specifically about a teaching of Jesus about how forgiveness works and what its limits might be. As I read through…
Not long ago I came across a post on Facebook—that endless source of provocation—from someone I think must be about my age, and who is a member of an Episcopal…
Last weekend the Vestry spent a day and a half on retreat up at the Barbara Harris Camp in New Hampshire. We were not the only folks there, by any…
[Editor's note: this is an edited transcript of a sermon preached extemporaneously.] Finally, it’s spring. The rain is falling and the little buds are beginning to form on the trees,…
I’ve recently been reading a powerful little book by Professor Tim Snyder, a historian at Yale, called On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Snyder studies the rise of…
Most of you are too young to remember a show called The Green Hornet. I’m not talking about the movie that came out a few years ago, which was pretty…
Yesterday, before any of you got here, and without even asking permission from the Wardens and the Vestry, I collected every last snow shovel I could find, and every last…