Contemplative Episcopalian

Angry With God 31.10.2021 16:15 ↓

Better is one day of sheer rage toward God than a thousand mountaintop mystical experiences. For ‘a soul untried by sorrow is good for nothing.’

Spiritual but Not Religious 24.10.2021 17:14 ↓

Sure, you may be able to leave your bad religion behind, but it does not mean that the underlying impulse at the heart of bad religion has left you.

Dave’s Ordination Sermon 19.10.2021 12:31 ↓

A homily delivered at my friend Dave’s ordination. Congrats to Dave!!!!

On Being Judgmental 17.10.2021 12:08 ↓

‘Dear Jesus, I am glad that I am not judgmental like other judgmental Christians. I am so thankful that I am not like those people who are thankful that they are not like other people. Amen.’

Death 12.10.2021 9:47 ↓

A funeral sermon.

Letting Go 10.10.2021 14:22 ↓

A reflection on Jesus’ interaction with the rich man.

Meditation Will Save the Planet 26.09.2021 18:03 ↓

Another sermon during this season where the focus is on creation care. ‘The human being of the future will be a mystic or she will not exist at all.’

Homily: Mother Earth 23.09.2021 15:19 ↓

Confronting the dogmas that we Episcopalians have been indoctrinated into whenever it comes to creation care and the climate crises.

Go and Find Your Mountain 05.09.2021 16:38 ↓

A sermon kicking off a season where we in the Episcopal Church are focusing on creation care. A snippet: “You cannot worship Christ on the altar if you do not pity the suffering Christ in melting glaciers, in endangered animals, in parched lands, in polluted oceans, and in forests that have been reduced to ash.”

Homily-Wake Up to Your Life 15.08.2021 12:44 ↓

With such epic one-liners as ‘The greater the gratefulness, the greater the joy,’ and ‘Physics? Who has time for that crap?’, and ‘It is not that Paul doesn’t want to get you drunk,’ who wouldn’t want to give this podcast a listen?

Sermon-Anger 08.08.2021 18:46 ↓

‘If I dwell in my anger I impair the Holy Spirit’s capacity to dwell in me.’

Homily-Faith 01.08.2021 16:45 ↓

Beer, chiropractors, faith, baseball, subpar parables, the state of Missoura…this sermon has it all. Enjoy.

Homily-Gratefulness 25.07.2021 17:05 ↓

‘Religion IS supreme thankfulness, or gratitude.’ -Thomas Aquinas

Homily-Interruptions 18.07.2021 15:25 ↓

How do you react to interruptions, to being inconvenienced? Yeah, that pretty much will tell you how much you have let Jesus heal you.

Episcopalian(ish): Evangelism (gross) 15.07.2021 20:48 ↓

A guy in a collar opines about a controversy in the Church of England, which leads to more opining about evangelism in general.

Sacrament 11.07.2021 18:49 ↓

“The Eucharist is the most special thing in the universe precisely because it is not any more special than anything else.”

Mustard Seeds & Detachment 13.06.2021 14:02 ↓

A sermon on Jesus’s parables in Mark 4:26-34

The Unforgivable Sin? 07.06.2021 14:08 ↓

What Is ‘blasphemy of the Holy Spirit,’ the ‘eternal sin?’

Trinity Sunday 2021 01.06.2021 12:07 ↓

Trinity: were the Church Fathers trying to stump us with a bad math equation, or were they inviting us into the mystery of nonduality?

Pentecost 2021 23.05.2021 10:56 ↓

A weird story about tongues of fire that don’t burn people and an old man with the superpower of fiery hands.

Why go to church? 17.05.2021 16:59 ↓

A homily about the dangers of solo spirituality.

Homily: Imagine what the world would have looked like... 10.05.2021 15:54 ↓

Reflexting on the Church’s relationship to the LGBTQ+ community.

Fear-based religion vs love-based religion 02.05.2021 9:21 ↓

A homily delivered on May 2, 2021

‘We know love by this...’ 25.04.2021 12:24 ↓

Love. The ballet. Steve Perry. Easter Chocolate. Jesus playing a guitar solo. Apparently, this homily has it all.

Forgiveness 21.04.2021 11:42 ↓

Reflections on forgiveness and what might possibly be one of the most terrifying passages in the Bible.