March 27, 2011
This is the sermon I didn’t give this morning in Fort Bragg:
This morning, we hear the story of Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. Like many stories of Jesus’ life, this is a story about expanding the boundaries of who counts with God. (more…)
March 23, 2011
I was reading, with Matins this morning, an excerpt from the treatise On the Six Days of Creation by Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. In it, he is wondering where evil comes from. He concludes “It is a pervasion of mind and spirit, swerving from the way of true virtue, which frequently overtakes the unwary. … The enemy is within us. (more…)
March 23, 2011
In talking about Gregory the Illuminator (who we remember today) Sam talks about evangelism (and how we approach it) in a way I find on target and helpful. (It reminds me of Hugh Majors saying you had to be in a relationship with someone for years before you knew them well enough to share your faith with them!) Sam talks about how Gregory shared his faith “in the halls of authority, where he managed to convert a king.” It wasn’t converting the king that Sam admires. It was sharing his faith at home. (more…)
March 21, 2011
A lot of the daily office readings from the Hebrew Scriptures for Lent are from Jeremiah. He began his work as a prophet during the reign of the reforming king, Josiah, and in these Dueteronomic reforms, the cult was to be centered in the Jerusalem Temple and justice was to be done for the widows, the orphans and the oppressed. At first Jeremiah supported these reforms. But over time, it came to be about a kind of cultic legalism, a personal purity, and concerns for justice for those in need fell away. (more…)
Stories of Ministry and Doings of St. George's Episcopal Church in Carmichael
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Becoming a Bat Mitzvah in one's fifties, and other midlife leaps of faith
The Sunset Juggler (formerly The Dragon's Mouth) 