It’s time to stop choosing fear over love. It’s time to stop thinking about how we are different instead of how we are alike.
Category: Social Justice
Remembering the Ashes: 15th Anniversary of September 11
Fifteen years ago, I stepped into the pulpit just days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with a shattered heart and sore soul. I wanted to share that sermon today in remembrance.
Speak the Language of God’s Love
Have you ever noticed the collect, the prayer that the officiant says before the scripture readings at each of our Sunday services? Each week it is different and it is thematically related to the readings that have been appointed for the day. These prayers are all encompassing and audacious. They are meant to “collect” the…
Lessons in Authority & Healing
I started my weekend on Friday afternoon. My family decided to go to the movies. We decided that we were going to see X-Men: Apocalypse (No fear, I promise you that, since the movie just opened, there will be no spoilers in this sermon.) As we drove to the theater, I noticed that many of…
Prophet or Jerk: How We Can Tell the Difference?
There are no jerks here….only human beings trying desperately to do the will of God and speak the truth.
Giving Thanks for a New Year
If we look closely at the world, we can see two timelines unfolding side by side, moment by moment. First, you have the worldly timeline. We all know about that one. It’s the one that brings us headlines about bombings in Paris and in Bangladesh. It’s where we hear about mass shootings in Colorado Springs….
Giving Birth to a New World Vision
Let me share a sampling of the headlines I encountered on my preferred online news outlet yesterday. Of course, many pointed to the terrible attacks on Paris, but there were many others: Nightmare in Paris: Terrorists Kill 150 ISIS Claims Responsibility, Calling Paris Attacks ‘First of the Storm’ Tour bus crashes at S.F.’s Union Square:…
The Wisdom of Welcome
The other day on television, I was watching a reality cooking show called the Rachel Ray’s Kids Cook Off. All of these 11 and 12 year olds are competing to win the chance to do an on-line cooking show and win money that will be put away as a scholarship to cooking school when they…
Break the Silence: Intimate Partner Violence
In one year, more than 10 million men and women are victoms of physical violence by an intimate partner in the United States. That’s 20 people per minute… Every single minute, every hour, every day, every month, every year this happens here in teh United States. The National Intimate Partner & Sexual Violence Survey puts…
Scattered Revelations 