A Psalm for Times of Covid
Psalm 42 As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.When shall I come and behold the face of […]
Category: Sermon
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Cracks can be made beautiful
Who is Jesus speaking to in today’s Gospel reading? The young man. The disciples. But surely he’s also speaking to us! The young man today thought he had it all, […]
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Gratitude creates Forgiveness
Some Orthodox theologians have lately been recovering an ancient tradition of Orthodox theology that goes back to the second century, with St. Irenaeus’ idea of recapitulation, ανακεφαλαίωσις, and especially to […]
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Restoration job in progress
God created human beings in God’s image and likeness. When the early Christians began to explore the meaning of Christ’s coming into the world, very early, as early as the […]
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Out in the Storm(s)
Last week’s Gospel reading told us about the most public of Jesus’ miracles. Next week’s Gospel reading will also be a very pubic miracle story. But today’s reading tells us […]
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The Good Shepherd Needs Assistants
Three former presidents spoke at the funeral of Congressman John Lewis last Thursday. All three spoke eloquently, but I enjoyed the story that President George W. Bush shared from John […]
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The Undivided Heart
Isn’t it amazing how much ingratitude there exists in human societies and in human nature? Two weeks ago we heard of one town that asked Jesus to leave, to get […]
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The Light of Christ is the light you are!
The quotes from Thomas Merton’s book Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander that were used in today’s sermon are printed below for easy access. The remaining text of the sermon is […]
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The Art of Wooing
Tucked away inside today’s Gospel story is a picture of a dysfunctional society at war with itself. The landscape of the tombs where the two demoniacs spent their existence was […]
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The new liturgy
Thomas Merton was a man with an unequalled ability to express his Christian faith without ever closing himself into any sort of fundamentalism. He was a Catholic monk of the […]