November 17, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Well, that’s a cheery gospel, isn’t it? If you ever doubted if the church’s lectionary was in Advent in this time, this text ought to be perfectly clear about that, because Advent always begins with the second coming of Christ – with these end times passages. But, I think…

November 3, 2024 – The Feast of All Saints – May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. As I have said before, I just love that phrase from our collect of the day today: “ineffable joys.” Ineffable, which means “too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.” I love it today especially because I feel ineffable joy, the …

PHOTO: Diana Wilcox October 27, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. The lesson we heard from the letter to the Hebrews started with “The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office.” Nice, right? As you might guess, this priest isn’t planning on preaching from THAT …

September 29, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. In our first reading, from the book of Esther, we got to hear a small part of this incredible woman’s story. For the life of me, I cannot understand why our lectionary, the readings chosen for each week, and used by nearly all denominations, only gives us this little bit…

May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Gosh it is so good to be back here with all of you! While I really enjoyed my vacation, and needed it so very much, I missed you’all! I missed the choir too! And it is so awesome to be returning on Choir Appreciation Sunday. What an amazing sound they raise up to God every week! And, I am s…

August 18, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. One phrase we often hear, particularly in political punditry or business consulting, is that of “splitting the baby.” Have you’all heard that? Now, why on earth would anyone talk about doing such a gruesome thing? Well, glad you asked… because it was something that marked t…

August 11, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Somehow I wish we were hearing more about Jesus calming the storm rather than being bread, given the weather lately. Lordy. We offer our prayers to all those who have been affected by Hurricane Debby and all the other crazy storms that have occurred. But, that is not the go…

July 21, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” This is what we just heard Jesus say in our gospel reading from Mark. “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” Now, Sabbath rest is important – so much so that God decreed it one of…

July 14, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. I don’t know how many of you got a chance to watch the movie Barbie when it was out, or streamed it online, but if you did, then you know it wasn’t about a doll – not really. It was a fabulous critique of patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism – all in the hilarious context of Barb…

July 7, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Well, it is really good to be back from General Convention and here in this pulpit again. I missed you’all! Gee – did I miss anything? Did anything happen these past few weeks– you know, in the country, in our church? Maybe just a few things, right? But before we go there, I w…