Sermons

I’m not sure I could return violence with non-violence, as did Martin Luther King Jr.. But I would love to have at least some of his courage.

And all of us who are baptized, if at times we are tempted to “settle” elsewhere, know that God is calling us to “go,” to pivot our lives toward Jesus, and to find our home with him.

This Lent I invite us to take courage from the Book of Jonah, who communicates to us the abundant and unbounded mercy of God for all.

The purpose of our Lenten disciplines is not to burden us or to make us gloomy but rather to free us to more fully know the joy and peace – the complete joy and perfect peace – of Jesus’ Passion and resurrection.

For if not our mind then our bodies will understand that this “pose” in which our bodies find themselves tonight is healthy for us, that this reminder of “being dust and to dust you shall return ”frees us to live fully in the present.