Category: Sermons

Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.

  • Expanding Peace

    Expanding Peace

    Thomas isn’t the paragon of doubt. He shows us how belief goes way beyond our narrow, post-enlightenment framing.

  • Share the Love

    Share the Love

    The thing about faith is that we don’t just want to be better. We want to want to be better. And that is where the magic is.

  • From the Wrong Place

    From the Wrong Place

    The empty tomb reveals both the joy and fear of new things: and our tendency to assume what our faith tells us not to.

  • The Time of Temptation

    The Time of Temptation

    In the Passion, we receive a story of innocence murdered. But that story’s foundation is all so much temptation.

  • Palm Sunday is a Head Trip

    Palm Sunday is a Head Trip

    Celebrating Palm Sunday forces us to recognize what responsibility we have. And what responsibility we pretend we don’t have.

  • Being Mary

    Being Mary

    Mary anoints Jesus’s feet. Judas argues for the prudent use of resources. Why do we always side with Judas?

  • Brotherly Hate

    Brotherly Hate

    In the parable of the lost sons, Jesus shows us our greatest obstacle is how much we want others to deserve our scorn.

  • At that very time

    At that very time

    Jesus challenges us to see beyond asking why things happen and toward what we are called to do in light of it.