17 April 2014

God is Dead: A Homily for Good Friday, Year A

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Reading: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to St. John Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ....

Raising Lazarus: A Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year A

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Grace to you and Peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who is calling us out of the grave. Amen. “Lord, if you had been here...
19 February 2014

Don't Call It a Comeback: Christianity, Politics, and Political Shifts

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A friend shared an article over at The Atlantic about the re-emergence of moderate and leftist Christian politics. After twenty-some odd ye...
24 September 2013

Serving Dishonest Wealth

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Proper 20, Year C -- Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost Luke 16:1-13 Grace and peace to you, from God our Father and our Lord Christ Jesus. A...
25 June 2013

The Offerorty and the Kiosk

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A recent (satirical) post over at Stuff Christian Culture Likes got me thinking about how wrong-headed we are about the Offertory. This pos...
07 June 2013

Soul-Body Dualism and Sacramental Theology

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About a week ago , I put forward some thoughts on death and Fundamentalism's Gnostic tendencies, suggesting that the Fundamentalist view...
29 May 2013

Against (Further) Heresy: or, Fundamentalism's Gnostic Secret

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About a year ago, Thomas Long took aim at what he sees as the deeply Gnostic bent in the more liberal branches Protestantism. "Preachin...
12 May 2013

Thinking Through the Ascension

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Below is my homily for the Ascension, but first, a word: it is perhaps obvious to say, but a sermon which meditates on the ineffable quality...
19 April 2013

Scattered Thoughts on the Killing of a Killer, Redux

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In the aftermath of this week, I decided to revisit my thoughts on the killing of Osama bin Laden. My thinking has changed slightly over the...
12 April 2013

Reflections on Beginning the Ordination Process

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Today, I had my Meet and Greet with my synod's ordination committee. Let me start off by saying that I left the meeting feeling as tho...