A Sermon for the Thirteenth Sunday after the Day of Pentecost

"Following Jesus means losing those self-imposed barriers that never protected us anyway."

A Sermon for the Tenth Sunday after the Day of Pentecost

No one experiences true peace until everyone does.

A Sermon for the Ninth Sunday after the Day of Pentecost

At one point in the film, Mame speaks to the poor attitude many people have about life. “Life’s a banquet,” she says, “and most poor suckers are starving to death.”

A Sermon for the Seventh Sunday after the Day of Pentecost

God sure knows how to make a point.

A Sermon for the Sixth Sunday after the Day of Pentecost

We don’t know many prophets, and Jesus rarely reclines in our living rooms, but we see the world around us. We probably see too much of the world around us. We’re inundated with a breadth of news headlines, but our sources rarely invite us to develop a depth of understanding of the world around us.

A Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after the Day of Pentecost

It is through association with the rejects, through giving up our motivation to win, that we are liberated from that which made Naaman a slave and made his slave girl free. It is through humility that we are healed of the wounds this world inflicts on our souls. It is in our weakness that we are most known and most truly loved.

A Sermon for the Third Sunday after Pentecost

We sit on the fence a lot as supposed followers of Jesus. We try to guarantee physical and economic security, we try to protect our state of mind and sense of tranquility in the communities we call home. We put boundaries around when and how we follow Jesus and with whom.

A Sermon for the Second Sunday after the Day of Pentecost.

What does it mean to be the people of God in turbulent times?

We are people of hope.

A Sermon for LGBTQ+ Pride, on the Day of Pentecost

Love has already won. A homogenous society is an unfinishable task—God’s Spirit will disrupt its engineers every single time.

A Sermon for the Day of Pentecost

How does the Church participate in bringing about the world that God is building?