Where is Jesus’ family? Shouldn’t they be here – or did they desert him too? Families, no matter how dysfunctional, usually rally for this part – calling the funeral home, writing the obituary, showing up for the service. Yet here for Jesus’ burial we...

Do you know what a seraph signifies in the Old Testament and how that relates to Jesus? The Rev'd Jim Quigley makes the connection.

Where did he find the freedom to do that – to show unapologetically with his words and actions exactly how he felt? In today’s Gospel, Jesus makes quite an entrance. While the other Gospel writers place Jesus’ “cleaning house” near the end of his...

The Unacceptable Messiah 

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen 

Frederick Buechner wrote that after his baptism Jesus spent forty days in the wilderness asking himself the question of what it meant to be Jesus, and that...

Sacrifice is costly, Rev'd Geoffrey Hoare says, but it's how we remember what matters most.

"Aha moments" are transformative, Rev'd Geoffrey Hoare preaches, but they don't usually happen all of a sudden.

A few years ago New York Times columnist David Brooks published a book called The Road to Character.  In it Brooks contrasts resume virtues with what he calls eulogy virtues.  Resume virtues are the things that you put on your resume; the skills you...

When rules are harsh, what do they mean in practice? Often, says Rev'd Geoffrey Hoare, compassion finds a way in.

There’s as sense of urgency to the season after The Epiphany.  As our Collect for the Day commends, “Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our savior Jesus Christ…”

Unlike other seasons of the church year, seasons like Advent and Lent...

Core values for Christians, the Rev'd Geoffrey Hoare preaches, are grounded in grace and relationship