June 16, 2024 – LGBTQ+ Sunday: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. For the past three weeks, I have been trying to live into our State nickname – you know, The Garden State. As you know, I live up in Sussex County, where there are farms, cows, sheep, and horses. …
June 9, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. I love our Mass on the Grass…With Brass! Of course this year, we are missing “the grass.” Still, we do this each year, not only because we can be surrounded by the beauty of God’s creation, but because when we move…
June 2, 2024: May God’s words be spoken. May God’s words be heard. Amen. Like many of you, I was glued to the television taking in the monumental news this week of a former President of the United States being convicted of 34 felony crimes by the people of the State of New York. Of…
May God’s words be spoken. May God’s words be heard. Amen. The Feast of Pentecost doesn’t get the same attention as Easter or Christmas. We don’t hold big family gatherings (though for some, that may be a good thing). It isn’t a typical day for exchanging gifts or sending Pentecost cards proclaiming a windy day…
May 5, 2024: Alleluia, Christ is Risen! The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! Amen. Some of you know that I received my Master of Divinity from the seminary of Drew University, a Methodist institution. I am very proud of that, as the classes were filled with people from many denominations, cultures, languages, races, and theological…
April 28, 2024: Alleluia, Christ is Risen! The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! Amen. While it happens more often than we realize, how strange it is to hear two places in one of our scripture readings that feature so heavily in our news cycle today: Jerusalem and Gaza. Stranger still is what takes place. In…
April 21, 2024: Alleluia, Christ is Risen! The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! Amen. It is Good Shepherd Sunday, which always is the fourth Sunday of Easter. Of course, the obvious clues to this are Psalm 23 and the passage from the Gospel of John. Many, even those who have never been to church, know the…
Easter Sunday – March 31, 2024: Alleluia, Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed. Alleluia! Amen. Well, that’s a really strange ending to this gospel’s resurrection narrative! Is it any wonder why later scribes added a tweak or two to the ending? Just look at that last part, where it says that Mary Magdalene, Mary…
Good Friday-March 29, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Jesus says before he gives up his spirit “It is finished.” “It is finished.” God became incarnate, became human in Jesus through Mary his mother. Jesus breathed in the air with us, felt the warmth of human touch, tasted the…
Palm Sunday – March 24, 2024: “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!” Amen. Just a reminder, as I say every year, this should be only Palm Sunday. The passion should not be read here – on Palm Sunday where it really doesn’t belong. Some say that we have always…
