Mark 8:27-38
I am a great fan of the cartoons in the New Yorker magazine. One of my favorites that I often refer to is a scene where a woman is talking to somebody and she says, “Well, enough about me. Let’s talk about you. So what do you think about me?”…
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Brenda is a priest that I know who is the rector of a large Episcopal church in Manhattan. I got to know Brenda when I was in my former parish in the Diocese of New York…
John 6:35, 41-51
A couple of weeks ago I was away for a while and went up with my family to New York to visit with my dad and to visit with my daughter and her husband in Connecticut and to spend some time there…
Mark 5:21-43
Miracles … really? We hear this reading from Mark’s gospel this morning and there’s a story of the father who asks Jesus to heal his daughter and at the end of the story we find that he raises her from the dead…
1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-8
You’ve had those experiences in your life when you just get that sense that it’s good to be together. It’s just good to be. I want to talk a little bit about that word “be” and what it can mean in our lives…
John 20:1-18
One thing I find interesting in the stories that we read from the scripture about that first Easter Day, the day of the resurrection, is that the disciples never experience what they expect in the risen Christ…
Genesis 9:8-17, Mark 1:9-15
You hear the word “covenant” in our readings today, particularly in that reading from Genesis, that covenant that there will never again be a flood. I’d love to hear that being read today in the churches of Boston…
Mark 1:21-28
Do you know people in your life, or perhaps you’ve met somebody. and they’ll say something to you and you’ll say, “Yeah, you’re right?” You just know it. Or they say something to you and you say, “I know.”…
Mark 1:14-20
Are you the kind of person who likes someone to get to the point? Did you ever have a conversation with someone and you’re like, “Get to the point!” Then you should like Mark’s gospel…
I am becoming more and more convinced in my life that we are not human beings looking for what it means to be spiritual, but rather we are spiritual beings looking for what it means to be human. That may sound like a reversal of what we usually think…