Passion Sunday March 24, 2013 Mark 15: 25-30 A few weeks ago I got another You Tube clip of a flash mob sent to me. You’ve seen them, I’m sure. Everyone’s walking around the mall, doing their thing, mostly paying attention to their own stuff, when suddenly a woman starts to sing. As heads […]
The Way of Violence vs. The Way of Love
Antonio Ciseri “Ecce Homo” 5th Sunday in Lent March 17, 2013 Mark 15: 1-15 The story goes that a man and his son were driving to a birthday party. They were talking about super heroes, as that was the theme of the party they were attending. When the boy asked his dad for his […]
Another Look at Love
4th Sunday after Epiphany February 3, 2013 1 Corinthians 13 How many of you have heard this reading before? Hands up. A few times? A dozen times? More than a dozen? You’ve probably heard it at a wedding, right? I’ve seen it written on plates with gold ribbons streaming around it. Very sentimental. The Apostle […]
Standing at the Crossroads
3rd Sunday in Advent December 16, 2012 Luke 1:5-24, Acts 9:1-9, Jeremiah 6:16 It was Karl Barth who said that preachers need to write their sermons with the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other. It seems particularly appropriate this week after a horrific shooting on Friday […]