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Jul 8, 20239 min read
The Wisdom of Love: Sermon for Proper 9A, July 9, 2023
I am pretty certain that, if you don’t remember hearing them and studying them before, the readings we just heard may have you a bit...
Jun 3, 202310 min read
Likes and Loves: Sermon for Trinity Sunday, June 4, 2023
A pilot and a priest have died and are waiting in line outside the gates of Heaven for entry. When they reach the front of the line, St....
May 27, 20239 min read
Being Made New: Sermon for the Day of Pentecost, May 28, 2023
Today is a day of creation. In our readings we just heard, we were taken from the very first beginnings of this precious Earth upon which...
Sep 4, 20218 min read
The Wisdom of Vulnerability: Sermon for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost
A group of rabbis gathered one day after a long day of studying the Book of Bereshit, which we call the Book of Genesis. The question...
Jun 12, 20216 min read
The Best Seed: Sermon for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6B)
In the week that I have spent here on the Mountain at Sewanee, I've only had a few moments to walk among the forests that surround the...
Jan 10, 20219 min read
Tearing Back the Heavens: Sermon for the Baptism of the Lord
As I began to ponder these readings at the start of 2021 and the start of this week, there were two things that my mind associated with...
Dec 25, 20206 min read
The Light That Illumines the Beginning
Sermon for Christmas Day 2020. It has been a most unusual year. It is only fitting then, that we begin our Christmas Day worship with the...
Dec 24, 20205 min read
What Christmas is All About
It usually happened every year of my childhood at the end of November or the first week of December. No matter what else is going on in...
Dec 20, 20207 min read
From Yes to Witness: Sermon for Advent 4B
The angel rode a rope of light down through the stars, and landed lighter than a dust mote right behind the old priest. Gabriel, whose...
Dec 14, 20209 min read
Who--and Whose--Are You? Sermon for the Third Sunday in Advent B
The last six weeks and the last six months have found us in the wilderness of loss. We have interred two of our members, had a delayed...
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