Category: Pastoral Life
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What I learned about message bias from the Press Corps and Trump
It is scary, because it puts our assumptions into question.
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You are enough
Sermon for Our Saviour Lutheran Church, Croton on Hudson, NY June 12, 2016 Luke 7:36-50 May I begin with a confession? You are my people, you have laughed and cried with me. You sat vigil with me as I worried over the safety and welfare of my children when…
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The Dirty Birth
It all seems perfect tonight doesn’t it? The sanctuary is softly lit with candles, draped in lovely fabric and the music is familiar, full of joy and hope. If things went well, at home the presents are all wrapped and the children have new pajamas to wear as they open…
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What Is It About Light
A message for the December 13, 2015 Interfaith Jazz Vespers of Mt Olive Lutheran Church, Santa Monica, CA. What is it about Light? From the first flickers of fire, and the dim dusk and dawn, humans have been drawn to light. I don’t just mean teen boys and their pyro…
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Beautiful Glass and Joy
The glass can cut you. It can let you see the world clearly. It can hold life giving water. It can keep out the storms. It can be half full or empty. We look right through it- but how often do you see the glass? I just watched a video clip…
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Grief is not emptiness- Sermon from August 14, 2014
The parable of feeding the 5,000 in Matthew 14: 13-21 is not only about vast numbers- which is a miracle. Or that he healed them, which is a miracle. Or the food that multiplied, which is also a miracle. This parable is also about the way we are healed and the promise…
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Carry that Cross- But NEVER alone; a Message for everyone
Life sticks us with some pretty heavy burdens at times. Sometimes too heavy, I admit, and our hearts despair and for some, they never get up after stumbling in the rough patches. But there is a message of hope and for those who are not Christians, there is assurance that…
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When Racial Tension Isn’t the Issue, but Contributes Nonetheless; What Shall I Say?
I cannot respond from any place other than my own. I recognize that I write from privilege and apologize for my ignorance or ineptitude, but silence is worse than the fault of trying imperfectly. The tragic and shocking death of a Virginia reporter and cameraman is rocking the nation this…
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Death Becomes Them
We all go there, that place where death puts us on auto pilot and our truest self seems to appear. In grief, we are ground down to the very nub of our nature and have no energy to be anything other than our most authentic self. Sometimes that is pretty darn…
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We are not enough. Sermon for Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran in West Hills, CA, July 26, 2015
Alone, we are not enough. We are NOT enough. But Christ said, “Ego Eimi, I am.” “Ego Eimi. I am.” Christ’s words to the apostles lay the foundation for us to understand who Christ is in the weeks to come but more so, it is the claim for us, that…
Mistress of Divinity 