One of the very best things about my call (job, position, vocation, whatever you wish to label it–though call is most appropriate) is that I get to read and write a lot. That’s a pretty good thing since I love both of those things. While on internship in seminary I remember calling a classmate of mine…
Reform: Verb: to change to a better state, improve by alteration, substitution or abolition, to cause to abandon wrong or evil way of life, to put an end to an action, to correct, to better, to amend, to repair, to restore. To form again. The year was 1415. A priest stood in a cathedral before…
A few times lately I have made reference to the fact that my mother passed away in September. Actually, I despise that phrase: passed away. Makes it sound so benign and innocent. She was peacefully at rest when she “passed away” but I do not believe for a moment that death itself is sweet, innocent or benign.…
Pentecost 19A Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18 Matthew 22:34-46 At the beginning of the movie, Love Actually, the voice of the character who plays the British Prime Minister has a little speech about love: “Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at the Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting…
This sermon was from Sunday, October 9th and it is from the texts for Pentecost 17A Isaiah 25:1-9, Psalm 23, Philippians 4:1-9, Matthew 22:1-14 Every communion Sunday our liturgy changes just a little bit. By that I am not just talking about the insertion of the rite of Holy Communion that comes right after the…
Shepherdess Writes 