Interrupting the Silence

Tag: Estrangement

  • Living In Exile – A Sermon On Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7

    Living In Exile – A Sermon On Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7

    In today’s reading from the Old Testament (Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7) the people of Israel are living in exile. It’s not what they wanted. They didn’t choose to go. They were forcibly sent from Jerusalem to Babylon and their lives will be forever changed. Sometimes life gives us what we neither wanted nor chose. I suspect Read more

  • Hospitality Heals Our Estrangement – An Advent Sermon On Luke 1:39-45

    Hospitality Heals Our Estrangement – An Advent Sermon On Luke 1:39-45

    Throughout our lives we find ourselves in circumstances or situations that are strange, new, incomprehensible. They’re beyond our previous experience and more often than not they leave us feeling estranged from ourselves, an alien in our own life. You know what that’s like, right? I wonder if that’s exactly how Mary feels. I wonder if… 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