Hope is the thing with feathers

by | May 4, 2017 | Sermons

While I “know” that the reason the church makes a big deal of Easter is Resurrection and its promise of New Life (most often read, eternal life), I’m easily taken off topic and distracted by the details that aren’t quite in the spotlight… or that are in the spotlight,...

“Have courage and be kind.”

by | May 5, 2016 | Sermons

1 Corinthians 13:1-13  If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove...

Be-longing ~ our Lenten Theme

by | Feb 25, 2016 | Sermons

What does belonging – and our human longing to belong – have to do with Lent and a spiritually disciplined life? We began Lent with a dark smudge of sticky ashes that took some scrubbing to remove…ashes that come with the story of God –...

Blessed be … parables from the backyard

by | Feb 15, 2016 | Sermons

This is the season of birdfeeders. It seems indeed right and proper that we should at all times and in all places support and sustain the resident birds during these long winter months. I suppose, really, they don’t need our feeders. They can find food in the woods...