Every once in awhile, I wish the Gospels had a really good novelist as an editor. I want someone to send this manuscript back to its writers and say something like, “Interesting story, but the motivations of Jesus are unclear. Why does he want to be baptized if he has nothing for which to repent? [...]
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All Saints’ Day, Year C, 2010
07Nov10Listen to the sermon here.
Today we celebrate All Saints’ Day. And when we say All Saints’ Day, we mean Allll Saints’ Day. We don’t just celebrate Mother Theresa and Hildegard, we celebrate all those Christians who have lived and died before us, and who now have—in the words of our Ephesians reading today—received their inheritance [...]
Proper 25, Year C, 2010
24Oct10Listen to the sermon here.
Last fall, when we first moved to Princeton, my husband and I attended a couple of parties one weekend. Now, having lived in Virginia, we were used to a certain kind of party chatter. My favorite party story to share was about the time I accidentally locked myself in a trash [...]
Proper 8, Year C, 2010
27Jun10Listen to the sermon here.
The word freedom means many different things to many different people in our culture. Lately there has been a lot of conversation about Stewart Brand’s 1984 speech in which he declared that “information wants to be free”. (In the same paragraph he said that information also wants to be expensive, but [...]
Lent 4, Year C, 2010
14Mar10Jesus drove the Pharisees and the scribes CRAZY.
The author of the Gospel of Luke does a wonderful job of portraying the way the Pharisees and scribes followed Jesus around, unable to tear their eyes away from what they thought was a theological train wreck. They have spent years of their lives following every rule, gaining [...]
