May 2022

Our Needs are Holy to God: the Need to Love and Be Loved

Is there any need of children, and of us all, that comes more readily to mind than the need to love and be loved? […]

Our Needs are Holy to God: The Need for Security

I was reading recently the new biography of Theodor Geisel, Becoming Dr. Seuss. I discovered that he counseled writers of children’s books to try […]

Babel and Pentecost….Today!

Jesus had promised his disciples that the Holy Spirit would come, and so it did. Fifty days after Easter at the Jewish festival of […]

That All Shall Be Saved

I have been wanting to preach this sermon for a long time but did not feel free of mind and heart to do so. […]

The City on a Hill and American Exceptionalism

“This is a Christian nation!” is the cry of many today as they seek to enshrine a form of Christian supremacy into our laws. […]

A Preacher Turns in Bed at Night Over the Matter of Sacrifice

“Greater love hath no man than”to lay down someone else’s life for the Economysomebody’s re-electionthe welfare of the corporationsthe greasing of the wheels of oligarchyThe […]

Living in the Meantime

What’s going on with your feelings going these days? In an old comic strip, Shoe, the newpaper editor sits at his desk and says, […]

Prayer in the Pandemic

How can we pray in such times as these? It is not always easy. We are feeling so many things, including a sense of […]

Herod, Peter, Rhoda and the Church at Prayer

Herod, Peter, Rhoda and the Church at PrayerActs 12:1-24 Here is one of the wildest chapters in the Bible. It’s like a short story […]

Wintry and Summery Spirituality: A Spirituality for All Seasons of the Heart

It was Martin Marty, the famous church historian, who introduced to me the idea that there are two kinds of spirituality: summery spirituality and […]