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"There are things that we will never know. That can be discouraging, but it can also be motivating... I don't love it. I don't love this idea that we will never know. But this is how we begin our Advent season: in the strangeness, and the darkness, and just the straight up honesty that there are things we will never know."

Text: Matthew 24:36-44

Preached at All Saints, Manhattan on November 30, 2025

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"We submit to God’s power by refusing to harm each other.

We obey God’s power by rejecting the pressures of our world to punish, to win, or to control any part of God’s created world."

text: Luke 23:33-43

preached at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Pearl River, NY on Christ the King Sunday.

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"We meet the mother of Jesus in this gospel not when she gives birth to his physical body, but when she gives birth to his ministry, at the wedding in Cana. The first time we see Jesus mother in John is at the beginning of the second chapter – “on the third day there was a wedding in Cana at Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there.”'

text: Gospel of John, in particular chapter 2 and chapter 19

preached at Grace Church Manhattan for Good Friday

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" In this last night with his disciples before his big showdown with the Empire Jesus does not tease them, or intimidate them, or reassure them with a show of strength, or sign of power. Instead God incarnate puts a towel around his waist and serves them. And when he done scandalizing his friends with this act, he commands them to do the same, to love one another."

text: John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Preached at Church of the Heavenly Rest, Manhattan, New York on Maundy Thursday

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"Today Jesus gets to sit and eat with the people who mean the most to him. These are friends who have walked with him for the past three years, who have loved him through everything. Martha, Mary, Lazarus, his apostles, the ones who know him best, right now. His chosen family.

Each one of them has struggled with the reality of who Jesus is, and how to love him."

text:John 12:1-8

Preached for Church of the Ascension, Mt. Vernon NY on the Fifth Sunday of Lent.

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" I suppose I have some things in common with the elder son in this morning's gospel lesson. Whenever I encounter this parable I find myself feeling the most empathy for him – out there in the field fuming and feeling lost while his father celebrates the son who has done so much damage. It is not fair. If I could give this parable a name I might call it “The parable of the resentful son.”

Text: Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

preached at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan for the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

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"Maybe this is how we all perish, friends. By living as if we can earn love and favor from God by just being better than, or separate from, other people."

text: Luke 13:1-9

preached for St. Paul's Staten Island, Third Sunday of Lent 2025

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"My least favorite version of the multi-verse is the one it feels like we are living in right now. It feels like people in our country are living in different universes from each other. I look at the world and see a disaster. My neighbor who voted very differently than me can look at the same world and think that finally everything is going pretty well. It feels like we are living in different realities, and that feeling is confusing and painful."

text: Luke 13:31-35

Preached for St. Paul's Spring Valley, NY on the Second Sunday of Lent, 2025

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"How do we know who we are? How do we know what that means?

One way is through reflection on scripture, and participation in worship – liturgies like this one, the First Sunday in Lent, where we encounter ourselves again and again in text and prayer and sacrament. 

Another way is to recognize our own wilderness experiences, and to face our own tests."

text: Luke 4:1-13

Preached on the First Sunday of Lent for St. Ignatius of Antioch, Manhattan

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"This child is God, come to be with us in the midst of all our brokenness, in the midst of every deep dark sadness, in the midst of oppression and danger and heartache and despair. Jesus is with us. The child who has been brought to be blessed is a blessing. Here he is, our tiny vulnerable flame, alight in the dark."

text: Luke 2:22-40

Preached for Candlemas Evensong, The Parish of Christ the Redeemer, Pelahm, NY