Sermon: Sunday, November 27, 2016: First Sunday of Advent

Now is the moment for a new commitment, a new accountability, an active, costly discipleship that will take things from us we do not want to give up.

Homily for “Fear Not! Advent Worship for the Longest Night”

There is waiting, and then there is waiting. There is anticipation, and then there is despair — the name we give to our fear of the future when we cannot imagine it could be any different from our present.

Sermon: Sunday, November 30, 2014: First Sunday of Advent

This is the starting place. This is the beginning of a new year, which comes weeks before the new year as marked by the empires of this world because God is already moving while we are still waiting. God is moving in the souls of people who know that nothing is hopeless, who cry out to heaven because they still expect God to answer, who can acknowledge their own complicity in the systems that oppress them but long to be free so that all can be free. God is moving in you.