Sermons

This morning I will speak about “the flesh” and “the Spirit” and why Paul in this morning’s lesson from Galatians might say the two are opposed. And I want to approach Paul’s “the flesh” and “the Spirit” by first consulting Leviticus...

Suppose we were looking for the Church to speak to our political circumstance, to shed light on our present political landscape, and to help us discern how best to order our lives among fellow citizens under a shared central government?

Towards the end of his life, when because of health issues he was in and out of sanitoriums in Switzerland, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke jotted in his notebook this fragment while wandering through a churchyard in the Swiss town of Bad Ragaz: “Alles ist spiel, aber spiele…”

In the evolution of technology, one tension that has been considered, in modern history, is the tension, or at least the interplay, between form and function. In architecture, or computer science, or nearly any type of innovation...

In today’s Gospel Jesus does for the first time something he does only twice in John’s Gospel: he calls someone by name: “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?”