Dec 29, 2020
In this sermon we look at the words Simeon and Anna spoke of Jesus as a baby. We consider what it means for an ending to also be a beginning, about how our lives contribute to what’s next, and having a fierce joy despite the evidence. And all of this with some help from Wendell Berry.
Dec 26, 2020
In this sermon we explore two aspects of the nativity scene: the manger and the shepherds. We consider the ordinariness of the shepherds, the eucharistic connections to the manger, of Jesus as God’s provision for the life of the world, why there are even donkeys in the nativity scene, and what Howard Thurman has to...
Dec 22, 2020
In this sermon we dive into Mary’s song by looking at the woman who came before her: Hannah, Deborah, Jael, and, of course, Miriam. Prophetesses and barren woman who singing similar songs and make room for God in similar ways. We see in Mary an image of what it means to be the church. We consider the question of what...
Dec 22, 2020
In this sermon we talk about joy. We consider joy as a sign of the existence of God, the difference between lower-case joy and upper-case Joy, joy as the practice of embracing cynicism by going further than it, joy as an act of resistance, and what that octopus documentary teaches us about joy.
Dec 10, 2020
In this sermon we talk about peace and wilderness. We consider John the Baptist as a reliable guide into the wilderness that Advent calls us into. We consider how peace is found when we do not struggle to be anything other than what God made us. We understand that confession and repentance is the work we are called to...