Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
“There is a word — a very short word — that I think is being eliminated from our conversation. It’s being eliminated from our civil discourse. It’s a word that’s being eliminated even from the way we think, engage, and interact with our world. It’s a three-letter word…”
Luke 3:1-6
To prove that we Episcopalians are a people of signs and symbols, a question that I’ve been asked a few times this week is a very profound one regarding signs and symbols. And the question is, “What’s with the blue candles? I thought they were supposed to be purple.”
Mark 13:1-8
I want to talk a little bit about our gospel reading today and put it in a little bit of context, a little teaching. There is a literary style, perhaps it can be called a way of writing, that was common in the scriptures, “vaticinium ex eventu.”….
Mark 10:17-31
I’m very much drawn to this man in the gospel reading this morning. Oftentimes this gospel reading is referred to as “the story of the rich man.” I don’t like when I’m told ahead of time what the story is about because it’s difficult to really hear it…
It’s hard to have watched any news this past week without hearing about the visit of Pope Francis to the United States, and some of the powerful thoughts that he has been sharing. I want to reference that in my thoughts this morning…
Mark 8:27-38
I am a great fan of the cartoons in the New Yorker magazine. One of my favorites that I often refer to is a scene where a woman is talking to somebody and she says, “Well, enough about me. Let’s talk about you. So what do you think about me?”…
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Brenda is a priest that I know who is the rector of a large Episcopal church in Manhattan. I got to know Brenda when I was in my former parish in the Diocese of New York…
John 6:35, 41-51
A couple of weeks ago I was away for a while and went up with my family to New York to visit with my dad and to visit with my daughter and her husband in Connecticut and to spend some time there…
Mark 5:21-43
Miracles … really? We hear this reading from Mark’s gospel this morning and there’s a story of the father who asks Jesus to heal his daughter and at the end of the story we find that he raises her from the dead…
1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-8
You’ve had those experiences in your life when you just get that sense that it’s good to be together. It’s just good to be. I want to talk a little bit about that word “be” and what it can mean in our lives…