Interrupting the Silence

Interrupting the Silence is a place for spiritual reflection, guidance, and growth.
It offers practical spirituality grounded in the contemplative tradition.

  • Interrupting Business As Usual – A Sermon On John 2:13-22

    Interrupting Business As Usual – A Sermon On John 2:13-22

    I don’t think this story is simply about Jesus getting angry. Jesus got angry. I get angry. It’s ok to get angry. That misses the point. There’s more to this story than that. And I don’t think it’s about the animals or the moneychangers being in the temple. Jesus surely had to have known they… Read more

  • The Conflicting Snapshots Of Our Lives – A Sermon On Mark 8:31-38

    The Conflicting Snapshots Of Our Lives – A Sermon On Mark 8:31-38

    We’ve known times in our lives when we felt unprepared for what we were facing. We looked down the road at what was coming and we didn’t like what we saw. We wanted to cry out, “No. This isn’t happening. This cannot be. This must not be.” Haven’t there been times when you felt scared,… Read more

  • The Wilderness Of Gun Violence – A Sermon On Mark 1:9-15

    The Wilderness Of Gun Violence – A Sermon On Mark 1:9-15

    The First Sunday in Lent – Mark 1:9-15 I don’t know how I can stand before you today with any sense of integrity and faithfulness and not say something about the Florida shooting. Something has to be said. I’m just not sure what to say or what can be said. I’m struggling with that. And Read more

  • The One For Whom Difference Makes No Difference – A Funeral Sermon On John 6:37-40

    The One For Whom Difference Makes No Difference – A Funeral Sermon On John 6:37-40

    I wondered what difference his being different made to others. Because you know as well as I that the world can be a difficult place when you are different. The world can be way to quick to see and name difference as a deficiency and way to slow to create a place and space for… Read more

  • Mortality And The Fragility Of Life – An Ash Wednesday Sermon On Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

    Mortality And The Fragility Of Life – An Ash Wednesday Sermon On Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

    We live in a tension between the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death. And we work pretty hard at denying, ignoring, forgetting, outrunning, and overcoming those twin realities. But they are always there. They are always present to us in the same way the ashes with which we will be marked were already… Read more

  • Recognizing The Stranger Within – A Sermon On Mark 1:21-28

    Recognizing The Stranger Within – A Sermon On Mark 1:21-28

    What are your stories of being alienated from yourself? What’s your first memory of that? What is your most recent memory of that? When have you felt like a stranger in your own skin? I think we all live as women and men with unclean spirits. They are those times when we betray our own… Read more

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Fr. Mike

My name is Mike Marsh. I am a priest of the Episcopal Church. I retired from active parish ministry in 2025 after serving twenty-two years in The Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.

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