An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
Proper 19C - Luke 15:1-10 I remember hearing someone say, “I feel like there are parts of myself that have been lost along the way, and I don’t know if I can go back and find them again.” It was…
Read More Finding The Lost Pieces Of Our Lives – A Sermon On Luke 15:1-10
Proper 23B - Mark 10:17-31 “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” I wonder what drove the man to Jesus. I wonder what was going on in his life that caused him to run to Jesus, kneel…
Read More A New Day, A New Life – A Sermon On Mark 10:17-31
Some losses are irreparable. The time is ruined. The suffering cannot be redeemed. There is no gain from this pain, no view long enough to eventually say, “It was worth it,” nothing that can compensate for what has been taken.…
Luke 19:1-10; Proper 26C “♫Zacchaeus was a wee little man and a wee little man was he♫.” Some of you may remember that song from your childhood Sunday School. Maybe you even sang it. I’ll spare you my singing of…
Read More When Life Cuts You Down to Size – A Sermon on Luke 19:1-10
How could the human race go to God if God had not come to us? How should we free ourselves from our birth into death if we had not been born again according to faith by a new birth generously…
Read More Irenaeus and the Purpose of the Incarnation
There are moments when the existential questions of life can no longer be answered, ignored, or denied by focusing on our careers, jobs, marriages, families, acquisitions, or accomplishments. We are, to paraphrase the opening of St. Augustine’s Confessions, restless until…
Read More Theosis, the Human Vocation
Behold, the time of our salvation approacheth; make thou ready, O cave; for it is time for the Virgin to give birth: and thou, Bethlehem of Judah, rejoice and be happy; for from thee shall shine forth our Lord. Listen…
Read More The Time of our Salvation Approaches
Although it offers an Orthodox answer I think this video also represents The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion at our best - when we return to our patristic roots. Thanks to The Country Parson and Byzigenous Buddapalian
Interrupting the Silence 