Sermons

Happy Advent! I have a confession – even with how kitschy they’ve become, I love advent calendars. You can find them filled with traditional chocolate, of course, but nowadays you can also find advent calendars with cheese, ramen noodles, dog toys, or the other day I even saw one filled with paraphernalia from the 90’s […]

Over the last six to nine monthsI’ve come across some criticisms,some desire to throw outthe Creeds.To be fair,this has been long-simmering!It’s part of the reformation:there are confessional churcheswhose repository of beliefsis in various statements –confessions –their early adherents adopted.There are traditions,both conservative and liberal by today’s standards,whose forebears saw the Creedsas additions to the gospelor

FaithI want to write about Faith,About the way the moon risesOver cold snow, night after night.Faithful even as it fades from fulnessSlowly becoming that last curving and impossibleSliver of light Before the final darkness. But I have not faith myselfI refuse it the smallest entry.Let this then, my small poem,Like a new moonSlender and barely

“Listen, Listen, Love, Love”

In her primer on feminist theologycalled “Esther, Ruth, and Rahab” –which is explicit,so be warned if you look it up –Christian drag queen Flamy Grantsings in the refrain“Castaways who outlasted and outplayedAn immigrant ancestor to the incarnate divineEveryone has a star that lights their wayWe see our paths by someone else’s shineEsther, Ruth, and Rahab,

This is the email I didn’t send this week.It’s the one I wrote but didn’t sendto keep from adding anxiety to the system.It’s the one that a veteran who survived a period of homelessnessby living in his car in a church parking lotsaid was a sermon in a letterin the traditionof most of the New

I wonder if sometimes we forget,and I alluded to this last week,that we have good news to share.I wonder if some of thatcomes from inverting, subverting, or converting our rolesshifting the creator and the createdwho has and exercises agency.I mean that I think some timeswe may be quick to blame Godand quick to look to

Just a few thoughts about our texts today since we’re learning quite a lot in other ways!

“According to Lesser Feasts and Fasts,Francis, the son of a prosperous merchant of Assisi,was born in 1182.His early youthwas spent in harmless revelryand fruitless attemptsto win military glory.Various encounters with beggars and lepersPricked the young man’s conscience, however,and he decided to embrace a life devoted to Lady Poverty.” This is an embodiment, a reason that