Christianity

Why abortion arguments on both sides get it wrong, and why seeing each other’s intentions matters if we want to expand human sacredness to encompass all people.

Sermon on Jeremiah 31 Fifth Sunday in Lent, Given March 21, 2021 Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Today’s reading from Jeremiah contains some of the most comforting language to be found in the Bible: “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they …

Given on the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 14, 2021 Gospel Reading: Mark 9:2-9 Look Again: A Sermon for the Last Sunday after the Epiphany Let me tell you a bit about my process for writing this sermon. You see, it’s the first sermon I’ve written since the first Sunday of Advent – way …

A Sermon Given on the First Day of Advent Gospel Reading: Mark 13:24-37. Read here. “And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”Amen. Happy New Year! Today is the first day of Advent, which marks the beginning of a new year in churches that follow the liturgical calendar. While the rest …

At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, ‘Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.’ He said to them, ‘Go and tell that fox for me, “Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work. Yet today, tomorrow, and the …

A Sermon Preached on September 20, 2020 Readings: Exodus 16:2-15 Matthew 20:1-16 Draw near to the Lord, for he has heard your [whining]. When I was a kid, my sister and I inherited nicknames from our older cousins. My sister, prone to ramming her head into things by sitting too close to sharp-edged coffee tables, …

This is a real, vulnerable moment for me, because it’s not something I ever thought I’d share on a blog that I created to profile ethical fashion. But, alas, with eight years of blogging comes significant life and career change. Now that I’m in the process of getting ordained as an Episcopal priest, I thought …

“Please, I need a chaplain to visit Mr. S. I just gave him really bad news.” “I know he prefers the Catholic chaplain. Does he want to wait for him, or should I come now?” “Come now. I just gave him really, really bad news.” Yesterday at 12:15 pm, just as I had gotten back …

As you very likely have gathered, I have been swamped working over 40 hours a week as a hospital chaplain since May 18th. Chaplaincy 101 While I knew what I was getting myself into in terms of workload, I don’t think there was any way to understand what it would feel like to hold the …

Acts of Forgiveness Book Review Today is Holy Saturday, the day when, as my professor, Sister Janet, put it: Jesus is really, really dead. It is not the whimsical procession of Palm Sunday. It is not the wailing evening of Good Friday. Neither, of course, is it the bell-ringing morning of Easter. Holy Saturday is …