(Sermon for August 28, 2011 || Proper 17A || Exodus 3:1-15) Eustace Scrubb had read only the wrong books. The books he had read had “a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but,” says C.S. Lewis, “they were weak on dragons.” And so when Eustace accidentally accompanies his cousins Edmund … Continue reading »
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Horizons
(Sermon for February 22, 2009 || Last Epiphany, Year B, RCL || Mark 9:2-9) Imagine you are strolling down a pier on the cold, rocky coast of Massachusetts. You stop, lean your elbows on a metal railing, and look out at the vastness of the ocean before you. You can feel the impatient energy of … Continue reading »
Rambling in the presence of God
(Sermon for October 19, 2008 || Proper 24, Year A RCL || Exodus 33:12-23) Moses is a bit of a rambler. I know, because I am a bit of a rambler, as well. If Dr. House were performing a differential diagnosis on “anxiety,” rambling would be the first symptom written on the dry-erase board. In … Continue reading »
