Category Archives: Sermons

The Compassion of God – A sermon for the Second Sunday After Pentecost

In this unprecedented time, around the world, folks are getting creative with how to connect with each other and how to keep our spirits up. Actor John Krasinski started a news show from his home office, complete with a hand-painted sign from his daughter. In his web series, Some Good News,  he draws together allContinue reading “Don’t Give Up Hope”

It is not unusual that I can describe in detail one of the paintings that was at my childhood church that depicted Jesus leading a sheep. And although it looked more like a pastel, 1980’s watercolor than the grandeur of our Christ the Good Shepherd stained glass window above the altar here at Christ Church,Continue reading “Life, Abundantly.”

There are those moments wherein which someone says something so striking and so compelling that you have to sit with it for a while and let it wash over you. I had a moment like this about a month ago, when the clergy of the diocese had our first Zoom call with Bishop White inContinue reading “Hope and Faith to Go Out”

One of the prayers that I pray most often from our prayer book is the anthem found on page 492 in the Burial Office; we don’t often pray it at our funerals because it is the alternate for the beloved, “I am the resurrection and the life…” that gives deep comfort in times of grief.Continue reading “We Will Be Saved”

As many of you know, before I went to seminary to begin my studies to become a priest, I was a preschool teacher. There have been many times in which the skills that I developed over my six years of teaching that have been useful in my work and calling to serve God’s people. ThisContinue reading “In the Midst of Our Grief”

When I was in college, I was notorious among my friends for having a “life plan.” The plan would change frequently, and would always make wide, sweeping movements. I’d be planning on entering into the Peace Corps and then a month later, I would be applying to graduate schools for school counseling. This vocational confusionContinue reading “When We Begin Again”

There are some symbols are universally recognized. A black and white question mark with a circle around it is a sign that you can go to that place to have your questions answered. Any symbol with a large circle and a slash across it means that whatever action portrayed in that symbol is not allowed.Continue reading “The Fast That We Choose”

Whenever people return from a trip, rather than asking how their trip was, I like to get to the details, and I always have three questions I ask folks when they return: 1) What was the most beautiful thing you saw? 2) What was your favorite thing you ate? 3) Who was your favorite personContinue reading “We, Too, Can Change”