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What Does it Mean to Welcome

Your word is light, let this light have its free course. Let us not be hindered by the distraction from this world in the name of Jesus Christ. Six years ago, as I was applying for reception as a deacon in the Episcopal Church. I had many hoops ...

Calls Across Thresholds: Abram, Paul, The Woman, and a dash of Jimmy Buffet

2nd Sunday after Pentecost, June 11, 2023 Perhaps you opened up a magazine, and the picture that greeted you was a place that every bit of your being wanted to visit. Perhaps there was an echo: a word or an idea that sailed through your mind re...

Prismatic Pentecost

RCL-A May 28, 2023 Pentecost is prismatic. It is the one Sunday we really truly focus on the facets of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God, which is everywhere and surrounding all things: it is fire and it is breath, it is a million languages a...

Fandom Forward Ascension

7th Sunday of Easter & Ascension Readings, RCL A Have you ever been a new ‘fan’ of something? Brimming with the joy of the new experience that you just keep talking about it? Maybe it is a cafe or a sports team or a fictional universe. I w...

Loving One Another

6th Easter A , May 14, 2023 Your word is light, let this light have its free course. Let us not be hindered by the distraction from this world in the name of Jesus Christ. Seven years ago, I flew to Athens Greece to visit my youngest daught...

Ways and Methods

May 7, 2023 Easter 5 RCL-A It is said that all religions can be differentiated by two things I would add that denominations and sects within a religion Can be defined by the same two subjects. All major religions say that there is somethi...

Dreamy Psalm 23

April 30, 2023 RCL A Easter 4 Did they know that they had scribed history? Did it come in a momentary flash, or was it fiddled with for decades? Is it fermented in memories of deep satisfaction, and/or, of being rescued from the edge of an a...

Hospitality Test

RCL A Easter 3, 2023 It is barely even the week after. It is only days after arriving in Jerusalem, back when Jesus was greeted with palms, hailed as a herald of peace and good news. Debates, meals, betrayal, arrest, so-called-trial. Crucifixion...

Baseball, Thomas, and Not Getting It, yet.

Easter 2 RCL-A, April 16, 2023 I once was a college baseball stadium sound volunteer. There were no other volunteers, the sound director made it up for this baseball-loving pastor. I got to park my car right by the staff entrance, go to all t...

Easter Vigil Sermon

When we were growing up, there was a gargantuan playground near us. This playground had all kinds of attractions: sports fields, athletic arenas, tunnels under buildings which we would explore. Science laboratories and exhibits and even a theater...

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