Mark 10:17-31
This past week was the Clergy Conference for all the clergy of our diocese here in North Carolina. We gathered together for three days with our bishops. Each year there’s a different topic someone presents or facilitates during the retreat. It was three days and was in Winston-Salem, where it’s been the last few years…

Mark 9:30-37
So Jesus is walking with his disciples and he has just shared with them what is to come: suffering, the cross, painting a picture where this journey is leading. It says that they are walking “on the way.” Jesus seems to be always “on the way” with his disciples. They arrive at a house and Jesus turns to them and says, “What were you arguing about?”…

Mark 7:24-37
I really think that Jesus came to an understanding of who he was as he lived ever more deeply into his life. Jesus was on a journey, just as we are all on a journey. We discover who we are in the midst of that journey. Thomas Merton uses the phrase, “The journey of life is really a journey to discover one’s true self.”…

John 6:59-69
I’m a huge fan of mob movies: Godfather, Goodfellas, Sopranos. I just find there are so many levels to those movies. You may say, “George, are those the kind of movies a priest is supposed to like?” But then you may say, “That’s alright, he’s from New York.”…

It has been said that one of the mistakes that the early Christians made was that of turning Jesus into a religion. Religion can mean a lot of different things in our lives. If I were to ask you, “What does that word religion mean?” there could be lots of descriptions…

This Thursday the General Convention of the Episcopal Church begins. I would like to talk about the General Convention that’s coming up. Over the years I’ve been here at St. Paul’s this is the fifth General Convention that’s happened and I’ve been told that giving a preview has been helpful…

God is such a patient God who relates to us, such an impatient humanity. I want to share a couple of thoughts on that this morning. As you know, on Sundays we read from scripture. These readings are not readings that clergy get together with and pick out, “Let’s have these readings this Sunday…”

I want to share a story with you of the abbot of a monastery, a Trappist monastery called the Monastery of the Holy Spirit. The monk there, the abbot of the monastery was asked about the meaning and significance of the monastic life in the monastery…

We’ve heard the story of the women going to the tomb of Jesus. They were going there to perform a Jewish ritual. But when they went to the tomb, what they experienced was quite different from what they expected…

On Palm Sunday the liturgy itself has such a power to it that as a homilist who’s sharing a homily this morning I feel a need to almost get out of the way of the liturgy and let it tell it’s story…