Sermons

When we think of the parable of Prodigal Son, we tend to think of the Son and his return home or of the Father and his welcome. But what about the older son?

In today’s reading from Exodus chapter 3, Moses is a man on the run, a man who is lost, a man who is cut off, not only from his people the Hebrews, but also from himself, from his core, from his heart.

In Isaac Asimov’s 1941 science fiction classic, Nightfall, the planet Lagash has not one but six suns, at least four of which are typically in the sky at any given time.

The point of our Lenten practices is not so much to “do” as to imagine.

Repentance is not so much a groveling before a divine Majesty, but rather is a resource to help us lead more rich and satisfying lives even as we are in a world where much is broken and fallen.