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The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout...

It's the Second Sunday after Pentecost. Breathe easy! We are back in Ordinary Time and we can get back to normal! You wish. Some of our...

[I dug into the archives for this sermon I delivered on Trinity Sunday, June 16, 2019 at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ] ✠In the...

Let's face it, as a species humanity can be petty, vindictive, silly, aimless, and thick headed. Ow. We also have aspirations that go...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona (https://stmarysphoenix.org) for the Seventh Sunday of...

There is nothing so fraught with illusion as considering friendship with God. That is not to say it is impossible or unattainable, but...

A few years ago I was coming out of a slump in my faith. Some confessions call this backsliding, some call it lapsing, and I was close...

People who hear ancient Christian teaching will eventually hear the phrase, "He [Jesus] laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay...

[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for the...

Western culture has for centuries now been steeped in empiricism (or a counter-reaction to it). For a premise to be considered true it...

This is the day of resurrection! Let us be illumined by the feast! Let us embrace each other! Let us call “Brothers” even those that hate...

It's Palm Sunday...before the pandemic this was the time people went to Church to get a little extra drama, picked up a palm frond...

[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for The...

It's now become quite fashionable to adopt a more relativistic code of ethics, taking as one's motto, "An ye harm no one, do what ye...

The readings for Mass today seem to be all over the place (a common complaint about the Revised Common Lectionary, it seems). The Old...