Ut Aliis Tradere

[Sermon preached at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday, November 22, 2020, the...

Many Christians and those influenced by North American Christian culture have an existential dread called variously the Day of the Lord,...

Normally my comments are about the day's Gospel, but today I wish to turn our attention to the Epistle (1 Thes. 4.13-18). In the West,...

We've all heard it. Someone or another, undergoing some arduous and to all onlookers unnecessary tribulation gets accused of "bucking...

Jesus had to put up with a lot of challenges to His teaching. Not only was He constantly badgered about His credentials, He also...

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

Jesus loved to use parables. A good storyteller knows how to grab an audience, keep their attention, and get the message across, whether...

So last Sunday I preached a sermon that included the parable that we read at today's Mass. The parable is a rousing condemnation of how...

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

We have elevated whining to an art form. Seriously, an accomplished person can take their major (and especially minor) afflictions, spin...

We humans have an extraordinary capacity for neither forgiving nor forgetting. Personal and tribal and national affronts get carved in...

The beginning of a solar year is totally arbitrary. We celebrate the start of our new cycle around the sun on January 1, but the Romans,...

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

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

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