You Are Enough

Readings for the Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Year A) Proper 27 – Track 2 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday November 12, 2023. I do not like this parable, this parable of the ten bridesmaids. More specifically, I don’t like when I try to interpret it the way most […]

Protected: Homily for Laura Perry Rose

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Thomas Traherne, Tefillin, Tassels, and Titles

Readings for the Twenty Third Sunday after Pentecost (Year A) Proper 26 – Track 2 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday November 5, 2023. “You’ll never enjoy the world aright, until you wake up every day as if you were in Heaven, until you look upon the skies with celestial […]

“Eureka” By Edgar Allan Poe

Readings for the Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost (Year A) Proper 25 – Track 2 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday October 29, 2023. Our Scripture readings today focus on the heart. The Book of Leviticus commands God’s people not to harbor any hate in their hearts, especially not for […]

Behold, the Image of God

Readings for the Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost (Year A) Proper 24 – Track 2 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday October 22, 2023. Twenty years ago, I was given this cross when I first visited the Holy Land. The cross is made from the trees of the land, the […]

“Don’t Worry, Be Happy”

Readings for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost (Year A) Proper 23 – Track 2 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday October 15, 2023. Here’s a little sermon that I wrote I’m going to try to preach it without note Don’t worry be happy Don’t worry be happy In this life, […]

Practicing Kenosis in the Face of War (with leonard Cohen)

Readings for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Year A) Proper 22 – Track 2 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday October 8, 2023. This morning’s sermon is about the reality of war, a call to humility, and the power of poetry or perhaps more simply it’s a call to a […]

The Joy of the Owl God

Readings for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Year A) Proper 21 – Track 2 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday October 1, 2023. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts be in alignment with the same wisdom that was in Christ Jesus who did […]

Protection against “the Evil Eye”

Readings for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Year A) Proper 20 – Track 2 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday September 24 2023. Several years ago, I picked Ashley up at the SFO airport after the holidays when we were first dating and drove her back home to Berkeley over the […]

The Process of Forgiveness

Readings for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Year A) Proper 19 – Track 2 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday September 17, 2023. Last Sunday, our Scripture readings invited us to choose life. Today our readings remind us that choosing life means choosing forgiveness. Rabbi Joseph Gelberman, who lost his […]