Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Readings for the First Sunday of Advent (Year B) Isaiah 64:1-9 Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:24-37 This sermon was preached at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity in San Rafael CA on November 30, 2014. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre […]

Pope Leo, the Skandalon and the Satanic Cross

Readings for Monday of Week of Proper 27 (HWHM) Titus 1:1-9 Psalm 24:1-6 Luke 17:1-6 This homily was preached by Daniel at All Saints Chapel at Church Divinity School of the Pacific on Monday November 10, 2014. The word skandalon and its verb form skandalizo appear 44 times in the New Testament, which compels many commentators to assert […]

Attitudes that Help Us Be

Readings for the Feast of All Saints Revelation 7:9-12 Psalm 34:1-10, 22 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew 5:1-12 This sermon was preached at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Crockett CA on November 2, 2014. In Thornton Wilder’s famous play Our Town, one of the main characters Emily dies in childbirth and enters an afterlife in which dead souls sit […]