Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com 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…
Photo by Hassan OUAJBIR on Unsplash A Sermon Preached on September 20, 2020 Readings: Exodus 16:2-15Matthew 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…
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…
Continue reading ➞ What Good is God’s Wrath? A Sermon For Veterans
Photo by Thach Tran on Pexels.com "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…
Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com 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…
I received a book for review from the author 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…
Continue reading ➞ Book Review: Ted Karpf’s Acts of Forgiveness
