John 18:1-19:42
Preaching Good Friday is always a challenge because it’s a day of such profundity. A day when the heart of God and the heart of humanity collide, and yet miss each other and later find each other…

Mark 11: 1-11, Mark 14:1-15:47
Have you ever had someone do an unexpected kindness for you? A note in the mail that touches you at a time of your need, an offer for conversation over coffee when that’s just what you want…

John 2: 13-22
Growing up in my father’s house, my dad always kept pennies, either on his dresser or in a jar. Now pennies aren’t worth much any more, but they actually were, back then…

Mark 1:21-28, 29-39, Isaiah 40:21-31
How often do you think about healing and prayer? If you are at all like me there are names on your daily prayer list … where you lift up a life by name to God for healing and wholeness…

Mark 1:4-11
We all have places that bring us to a place of peace. Sometimes it’s just a comfortable chair by a fire or not by a fire. Sometimes it’s a way of stopping and breathing and just finding our center…

John 1:6-8,19-28
“I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness; prepare the way of the Lord.” There is a certain tension in our culture right now. Too many deaths of black men have caught our awareness. Too swift a hand to draw a gun or to use a choke hold…

Matthew 25:14-30
We have a certain rhythm of going down to the beach in North Carolina. Every morning when it comes time to walk our newly acquired dog, I find myself confronted by numbers of people. At this time of the year you get a lot of surf casters…

Matthew 22:34-46
Spiritual journeys begin in very simple ways. Usually they begin by a dawning awareness of some sense of connection that runs deeper than we anticipate. Or they begin again because there is a desire to grow deeper in our life…

Luke 24:13-35
There are times in our life that are disorienting. Often these are times that involve change. There can be times of stagnation as well that disorient us. Perhaps someone has died and we enter into grief with its dragging weight…

Matthew 26:14-27:66
What do you prefer to have in your hand today? The palm? The thirty pieces of silver? The Eucharistic bread which was celebrated on this night in this gospel and which we will receive here? A pillow for sleep? The defending sword? The helpful touch of the cross like that of Simon of Cyrene? The nails and the hammer?…