First Sunday in Lent Mark 1:9-15 I’ve been thinking a good bit lately about wilderness… Maybe that’s why Rob and I took two nights last week to finally watch the movie, Lawrence of Arabia. I’d been wanting to watch this movie ever since I traveled to Jordan and rode a camel through the […]
Transfiguration Sunday Year B As a young person growing up in the church, one of my favorite religious celebrations was sharing the Seder meal—I understand from some of you here that St. Luke’s had great fun hosting a few Seder meals in the past. For those of you who aren’t familiar, the Seder is a […]
The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 “The world is all grown strange. . . . How shall a man judge what to do in such times?” This is the question Eomer, a character in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings asks of Aragon, the heir to the king. “The world is all […]
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany Sermon January 24, 2021 “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.” Tis the season to hear the stories of those who answered God’s call… Last week it was Samuel…Now the Lord came…calling as before, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel (after hearing this curious summoning three times) finally said, […]
Christmas Eve 2020 Of all the Christmas eves in my life, I believe this one, 2020, will live long in my memory. Like you, I have wonderful memories of many Christmas Eves in my life… I loved Christmas eve in 1976, when my family lived in Jacksonville, Alabama; we walked out of church that […]
Advent 4 A few years ago, when I was getting a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, I took an Art course…this was not an art history course or a course in which we students learned to create art, as that would be waaayy beyond my ability, but one where we studied the work and […]
Advent 2 Year B December 6, 2020. Mark 1:1-8 “And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.” Two years ago, I got on a bus with a group of folks I’d just met […]
The First Sunday of Advent, Nov. 29th 2020 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence– as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil– to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at […]
The Last Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 25: 31-46 One year ago, November 23rd to be exact, by the grace of God, I was ordained to the priesthood in Christ’s one holy catholic and apostolic church. If you were there, you know, it was an ordination to remember. The church was packed full, the reception hall […]
The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 25:14-30 I am glad to be back with you today. While I loved worshipping with our brothers and sisters at the National Cathedral on All Saints Day, and I so very much appreciated Rachel’s fine sermon last week while I was away at Camp McDowell, I missed being here […]