The choices of scripture themes this week are many and varied. I, like my friend Kate Huey, spent most of this week focused the theme of call, God’s call to each and every one of us to become God’s prophets of love and great hospitality through acting on another’s behalf and not judgement.
Read More“I have found you,” says the prophet Elijah to Ahab the KIng. “I have found you.” It’s a dreadful thing to be found by a prophet, a dreadful thing to hear the voice of a prophet, whether that voice comes from another or whether it’s an inner voice whispered into our ear ...
Read MoreAt Pentecost, I offered a message that was about the discernment of whether the Pentecost miracle was a miracle of the ear or a miracle of the tongue. With the help of my friend and theologian Eric Law, it was determined to be both, and more often than not, I am drawn to opportunities that express the miracle of the ear.
Read MoreAs per usual, I open with a meditation, and then this week, I offer a prayer through song, also a message about our hunger for control and power which is inspired by Richard Rohr, blended in is a reflection on the scriptures and then, finally, an entreaty from some of our Bishops.
Read MoreHappy Trinity Sunday! Before we continue, let’s take a moment and step out of our places of comfort, our place of regular pattern and stand up. I will ask two volunteers to step out of their seats and come to the front of the church. It is a simple illustration and no one is going to be hypnotized into clucking like a chicken or mooing like a cow…
Read MoreWhy is the door to Episcopal Churches almost always red? Well… the Holy Spirit lives there! Why is the hat or miter of the bishop pointy and a bit strange? It too represents the flame of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is water, fire and smoke… those mysterious and uncontainable “forces of nature.” Holy Spirit is always mystery!
Read MoreWhat a heartfelt invitation from the Book of Revelation: “Come,” come all you thirsty ones, come; take the water of life, take it as a gift. For who is not thirsty for life, and who doesn’t wish for the water of life. But even as we wish for the water of life, we are also looking at our world, listening to the daily news, finding ourselves asking ourselves, “What are we coming to, what in the world are we as a human race coming to?”
Read MoreA special sermon given during the Installation of Rev. Jennie Anderson at St. Barnabas.
Read MoreHow do we continue to describe the miracle of the resurrection? How do we describe being called by name out of death into life? A way we can describe the gift of the resurrection is to understand how we relate to God and how we carry that relationship into our day by day lives, give that gift of relationship to others.
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