Listen to the sermon here.
Do you remember Abbot and Costello’s routine “Who’s on First?” “Who’s on First?” is an epically long comedic bit about a disconnected conversation. Abbott and Costello are talking about a baseball team, but the players’ names are more than a little unhelpful. The first baseman’s name is Who. The second baseman [...]
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Epiphany 2, Year B, 2012
15Jan12Epiphany 7, Year A, 2011
20Feb11I have a confession.
I have a big problem with our Gospel lesson today. Rather, I have a problem with the way this text has been used in the Church. This gospel lesson has been used as a justification for people staying in abusive relationships and I have to address that before I can move on [...]
Epiphany 6, Year A, 2011
13Feb11Preached at the evening service of the Episcopal Church of Princeton University.
I am a rule bound person and have been ever since I was a kid. My parents had very clear rules for my sister and me and I had very little problem following them. We did our homework before we played. We went to [...]
Epiphany 5, Year A, 2011
06Feb11Listen to the sermon here.
When I was little my family spent a lot of time with good friends of ours—the von Hendys. The von Hendys also had two children, Vanessa and Stephan. Vanessa was just a year or two younger than me and Stephan was just a year or two younger than my sister, Marianne. [...]
Epiphany 2, Year C, 2010
17Jan10My husband and I planned our own wedding. We wanted the wedding to be a low-key, fun affair, but it turns out that planning low-key, fun affairs for 130 guests requires an enormous amount of effort.
I traveled to vendor after vendor, choosing tents and lights and tables and chairs and table cloths and forks. I [...]
