What would you say is the most important lesson you’ve ever learned? It might be hard to come up with that; after all, the lessons that are really the most…
There was a story in the news this past week that you might easily have missed, if only because there are so many stories in the news these days that…
Just beneath the surface of the three readings you just heard there is a flowing stream, like a river running through underground passages. It is a stream of water that…
Imagine with me, for just a moment, a story. Imagine that there is a college counselor somewhere in America, in a place out in the midwest somewhere. Imagine that she…
Sometimes the lectionary offers a group of lessons for Sunday morning that seem to speak directly to the issues of our day. Sometimes they don’t, and when that happens, as…
We live in a time of doom. There are doomsayers on every corner, on every web page, and on practically every page of the newspaper, for those of us who…
During the Christmas season I noticed that I received fewer of those letters that you get tucked into the Christmas card—you know the one I mean; the one that used…
Where I grew up, this season of very cold weather always brought with it a certainty about at least one thing you would be doing at school. During the more…
Text: Titus 2:14: “He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are…
Text: Luke 1:28: “And he came to her and said, ‘Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.’” Pay attention to a somewhat unusual phrase in two of the readings…