Today should be called rhetoric Sunday! In all three of our readings this morning, we have preachers at the top of their game. It is impossible to read these three snippets of scripture without imagining them preached in booming voices. Our reading from Hebrews today has a particularly pleasing cadence. The author is describing the [...]
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Proper 13, Year C, 2010
02Aug10Listen to the sermon here.
I am one of two sisters. My parents, wary of the tensions that can rise between sisters, treated us extremely fairly. If one of us got a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas, we both got a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas. When I was ten, I received a portable stereo. When [...]
Proper 10, Year C, 2010
11Jul10Listen to the sermon here.
Have you heard the story about Capt. Matt Clauer that has been circulating this week? Capt. Clauer was serving in Iraq last year when he got a frantic phone call from his wife, Mary. Together, they owned a $300,000 house, for which they had completely paid. Mary was calling because she [...]
Proper 7, Year C, 2010
20Jun10Listen to the sermon here.
I spent the summer I turned 21 in India, as a short term summer missionary with a group called Youth with a Mission. I had many interesting experiences, but the most disturbing was when our group was meeting some religious leaders in a slum in Bho Pal. An older man pointed [...]
Trinity Sunday, Year C, 2010
30May10Have you seen the movie Wall-E? While the protagonist of the movie is an adorable trash compacting robot, what I found really interesting was its depiction of humanity. In the movie, humans have evolved in such a way as to spare them any suffering. They float around in chairs, so they don’t have to walk. [...]
