John 20:1-18
Happy Easter! [Father George enters dressed in a hard hat and tool belt.] How many children are here? If you’re honest, we’re all children at heart… I want to talk to you about something today, particularly to the children: how did people know that Jesus Christ had been raised from the dead?
Palm Sunday, Luke 22:14-23:56
I want to share a few thoughts on this Palm Sunday and this week we’re entering into that we call holy…
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Carl Jung is someone who I really admire as a thinker, as a psychologist, with tremendous insight into the human mind and the way we find and discover meaning in our lives . . . I want to share a quote with you from Carl Jung as a lens for the reading from Luke’s gospel: “One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening.”
Matthew 6:1-6,16-21
We begin this Lenten journey tonight, this Ash Wednesday, I’m always brought back to the reminder of what Lent is about and how it came about. A reminder that in the early church, folks prepared for Baptism for three years….
Luke 9:28-36, [37-43a]
Today, we celebrate the end of a season, a liturgical season called Epiphany [. . .]. We conclude this season of Epiphany with this story often referred to as the Transfiguration. [. . .] How can we as the body of Christ be transfigured?
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
“There is a word — a very short word — that I think is being eliminated from our conversation. It’s being eliminated from our civil discourse. It’s a word that’s being eliminated even from the way we think, engage, and interact with our world. It’s a three-letter word…”
Luke 3:1-6
To prove that we Episcopalians are a people of signs and symbols, a question that I’ve been asked a few times this week is a very profound one regarding signs and symbols. And the question is, “What’s with the blue candles? I thought they were supposed to be purple.”
Mark 13:1-8
I want to talk a little bit about our gospel reading today and put it in a little bit of context, a little teaching. There is a literary style, perhaps it can be called a way of writing, that was common in the scriptures, “vaticinium ex eventu.”….
Mark 10:17-31
I’m very much drawn to this man in the gospel reading this morning. Oftentimes this gospel reading is referred to as “the story of the rich man.” I don’t like when I’m told ahead of time what the story is about because it’s difficult to really hear it…
It’s hard to have watched any news this past week without hearing about the visit of Pope Francis to the United States, and some of the powerful thoughts that he has been sharing. I want to reference that in my thoughts this morning…