Transeamus: Let Us Be Changed
“If anyone says ‘I love God’ yet hates their sibling, that person is a liar.” It is hateful to pass …
“If anyone says ‘I love God’ yet hates their sibling, that person is a liar.” It is hateful to pass …
Christmas is a holy day with an unlikely theme: being human. It’s about our humanity, and even about God’s humanity. …
We have gathered this evening to praise you, O Creator, for all our life comes from you, as do all …
[Reading: Marge Piercy’s Kaddish. Preached during a power outage, in the dark and cold at East Barnard Church.] We are …
Reading: Luke 7:36–8:3 “Your faith has saved you.” It’s only five words in English, but oh, how much unpacking they …
Readings: Joy Harjo, “Remember,” and Matthew 6:25-34 I think I discovered the secret to hope this past year. And it …
Texts: Jeremiah 29: 1, 4-7, 10-11; 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 To be a person of faith often feels like being in …
It seems disingenuous to ask if there are mystery readers here this morning, because I have seen many of your …
A heart that can break is a heart that can love. Both grief and love can only be felt by soft hearts. One of the things we celebrate tonight is the sacrament of grief, which reminds us that we are human, mortal, and yet indelibly, unbreakably connected to each other, even unto death. Even beyond death.
After reading the thousandth take on women’s rage in the U.S. yesterday, I realized what we need: we need May …