3rd Sunday after Pentecost June 25, 2017 Ephesians 2: 11- 22 Dramatic images of Paul show up in paintings and icons. The icons show him as bald, dressed in early Christian priestly trappings with symbols of his works and writings. Paintings are usually dramatic scenes of his conversion or his shipwreck […]
The Gift of Peace
Day of Pentecost June 4, 2017 John 20: 19-23 This morning we have two stories about the arrival of the Holy Spirit. We are used to hearing the one from Acts that starts with the cowering disciples, the Holy Spirit’s arrival, the crowd that includes Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, and Peter’s mind-blowing sermon. […]
Wait for the Sunrise.
26th Sunday after Pentecost November 13, 2016 Luke 21: 5-19 December of 1987, I was on my way north from Paris to a cast iron factory in the Ardennes Forest of France. I was the newbie on the trip on which all the US and Canadian distributors of Porcher Sanitaryware came to France to […]
In the Time of the Spirit
6th Sunday of Easter May 1, 2016 John 14: 23-29 You can click on this link to open the text in Oremus Bible Browser Sara Miles walked into St Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church on a Sunday morning purely out of curiosity. A hard-boiled journalist who had been raised by parents rebelling against their religious […]
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 […]