Sermons

Maundy Thursday: On holy ground the question is ‘How can I love?’ not ‘Whom can we blame?

Palm Sunday: Sister Death is the rudest of God’s creatures, skulking around the edges of life’s joys and labors, crashing in at the most inopportune times, ruining everything and leaving the debris of grief in its wake.

Lent V: The God they meet among the cherry blossoms never tells them anything they do not already know or anything they do not want to hear.

Lent IV: God, with a pillar of cloud by day, the pillar of fire by night, led them through the wilderness. That’s a pretty good GPS system.

Lent III: We who take religion—a word that literally means to put back together—seriously are responsible for more division and discord than any other group in history.

Lent II: What does it mean to be God’s companions but at the same time to live in the world?

Lent I: Making a commitment to God sets us immediately in the unknown, the un-predictable, the realm of mystery and encounter.

Ash Wednesday: Will yourself to return to God, opening yourself by fasting to the possibility for transformation and reorientation and reconnecting with God.

Ash Wednesday: The Lord of all creation is calling for an end of the victimization of the truth tellers among us, to cease partaking of endless ways of bribing our way through life…

Ash Wednesday: Opportune time has a sense of purpose and potential all its own. It is time charged energy that transcends whatever we might make of it.