September 9, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. I love this gospel reading (or its parallel in the Gospel of Matthew). What I don’t love is what we sometimes do with it. Now, when I hear it today, I am reminded of that glaring moment in February…
September 2, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Unless you have been living under a rock this past week, you bore witness to a nation grieving the loss of two icons – one is the Queen of Soul, the other a hero of our nation. The funerals…
August 26, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. A few years ago, my refrigerator decided it was time to retire to the old fridge home in the sky. So, I went looking for a new one, and was I ever in for a surprise. First of all, everything…
July 29, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. I love that line in the gospel today where it said “Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all.” Sounds like a description of Woodstock to me. …
July 22, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” How many of you hear that in the gospel today and just want to say “Yes!” Please… Jesus, give me that sweet rest. Of course, for…
[Our guest preacher was Mr. Christopher Dwyer. Christopher is a chorister, co-chair of our Outreach Group, and a seminarian] July 15, 2018: In the name of the one, holy, and living God: Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit. Amen. That Gospel story is a real barn-burner, huh? It’s got everything – sympathetic prisoner of conscience, courtly intrigue,…
July 1, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Lordy! It’s hot! You know what Episcopalians do when it’s this hot? We go to Austin Texas for General Convention! Yup – I kid you not. Anyway, I remember once being in heat far worse than this – back in…
June 24, 2018 – LGBT Sunday: [Today we have as a guest preacher a member of our choir and vestry, Mark Richardson. Mark is a psychotherapist at Beth Israel Medical Center (Newark), he also maintains a private practice in Montclair, NJ, focused on helping survivors of trauma. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Art, 1983)…
June 17, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. So, it’s been an interesting news week, right? Good Lord. I was watching ‘Morning Joe’, a daily cable news show the other day, when Joe Scarborough, the host, who you may know had been a Republican Congressman, was talking about…
June 3 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Episcopalians, by and large, are a liturgical bunch. How we worship matters to us. That makes a lot of sense too, if you know the history of our church. And, most Episcopalians do not grow up in this church. Many, like…
