Friendly beasts, magi and angels, facts and emblems, and how to read the Bible: another grab-bag sermon that might be like your stocking stuffed for Christmas morning. 

Christ-like living is more than mastering a few talking points. But talking points can be useful when all the shouting dies down.

Sometimes a difference of opinion is also a show of respect. Sometimes critical thinking is a show of devotion. Liz isn't in total accord with 2nd Peter, but she surprises herself to discover she is in some ways. When righteous living lands on the left...

This isn't a sermon, but a radio program that was aired on WSBS and recorded at their station in Great Barrington. It concerns an enormous issue, and only touches on one aspect of it. With much more to be said about the #metoo campaign and the events that precipitated it and the many more that have flowed from it, this is but the beginning of the conversation.

This sermon is the first of the new church year, from the 1st Sunday of Advent. If you're exhausted by everything going in in the world, if you scroll your Facebook feed in some compulsive need for soothing but also disturbance, then this might be just what you need to hear.

An sermon wherein Shakespeare, Hunger Games, Han and Luke, Matthew and Jesus, catharsis, and "the least of these" all come out to play, published with apologies for the recording glitch in the middle of it.

A sermon in which fiery Amos gets the better of Liz, preached on November 12, 2017.

A sermon concerning the proliferation of opioids, the grip of addiction (personally and socially), and the profits to made of it all, in which a line from "Thor: Ragnarok" is surprisingly apropos: "Proud to have it, ashamed of how he got it." From Nov. 5, 2017.

Liz preached this sermon in Monterey, Massachusetts on October 22, 2017.

Liz Goodman preached this sermon in Monterey on September 24, 2017.