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Tag: justice

  • this table – the shape of community

    this table – the shape of community

    We cannot sit at this table and at the same time live in ways that represent a refusal or betrayal of this table.

  • the invitation to generosity

    We read this morning from Deuteronomy, chapter 24: “When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back and get it; it shall be left for the alien, the orphan, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your…

  • Deborah – A Mother in Israel

    The Canaanites have more advanced weapons technology than do the Israelites. The Canaanites have iron chariots. Not chariots made completely of iron – but wooden chariots held together with iron strapping. And even if the book of Judges exaggerates the number of chariots King Jabin has, it has many more such iron chariots than the…

  • shaped by remembrance

    Final sermon in the Gospel and the Gazette series… ______________________ This morning we are thinking about the act of remembrance – about an intentional looking back into the past. More specifically this morning, we are thinking about an intentional looking into the past by which we are shaped as the children of God here and…

  • Dare we sing the Magnificat?

    My sermon from this past Sunday – the fourth Sunday in Advent. ________________________ Exuberant.     It’s a wonderful word, isn’t it?    Exuberant. It’s one of those words that carry their meaning so well. Even to say the word ‘exuberant’ is almost to be lifted into exuberance. The Mirriam Webster dictionary offers the following definition of the…

  • Biographies of Faith: Elizabeth Fry

    A sermon in my continuing, brief series on biographies of faith. ____________________ We continue, this morning, with our short series – biographies of faith.  We have all-too briefly explored the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who gave us a sense of costly grace – of what it means to stand firm for Jesus Christ and his…