Sermons

Easter V: In a world of guns and bombs and poison gas; uncontrolled greed and crushing poverty; melting icecaps and rising seas—can we even glimpse the transforming, recreating, gracious newness born of the love of God?

Easter II: The way to a fulfilled and creative spiritual life is to claim your true identity, as Thomas did, as someone to whom Jesus offers a relationship and a journey.

Easter: Easter is about many things, but perhaps its deepest meaning has to do with this divine persistence in search of you and me.

Easter: In the early moments of resurrection, we feel with greater poignancy the death that preceded it, confirming its reality by the invitation to move forward.

Good Friday: As we gather at the cross of Jesus this afternoon, let us ask ourselves: What is it about Jesus that shows up the part of ourselves that we cannot accept?

Good Friday: It must confound Jesus how often we misunderstand our own longings. He has taught and lived with utmost clarity the way of our redeeming.

Maundy Thursday: As you enter into these three days of betrayal and death and resurrection, what is it that you want God to do for you?

Palm Sunday: Which procession will you join and not just this holy week but every week of your life?

Lent V: Gun violence will continue to be a religious problem as long as people like you and me are sinners.

Lent IV: Planting a tree is, to my way of thinking, an exercise in Christian faith. We start with a seed and then God takes over.