Sermons

Pentecost VII: For when we show that we love something or someone that another cares about, that’s God’s grace at work in our lives, creating blessings.

Pentecost VI: Christians will always be caught in the gap between the country we desire and the country we have.

Pentecost V: In calling for the windows to be removed, I am asking not to rewrite the past but to tell the story of the past honestly—in a way that honors not just one side but everyone involved in a painful time whose effects are with us yet.

Pentecost IV: The trick, I think, for all of us in our lives is to be cognizant of the things that we cannot change, but equally aware of the things that we can.

Pentecost III: The kingdoms we know are temporal and territorial; God’s reign is independent of time and space, neither floating above the clouds nor awaiting some future cataclysmic event to announce its arrival, but existing here and now.

Pentecost II

Trinity Sunday: I think so often the most memorable things, the most meaningful things, are the ones that are unscripted, unplanned, unpracticed and yet become unforgettable.

Pentecost Sunday: The flames of the Spirit dance even now just above our heads, igniting new possibilities of love and relationship within us.

Easter VII: I said at the beginning that I believe that as Cathedral churches at the heart of our nations, our Cathedrals are uniquely placed to make known God’s call to fellowship and ministry to others.

Easter VII: But the acceptance of the gifts of God was the hardest thing for them to do. It is the hardest thing for us to do.