Sermon: Sunday, April 30, 2017: Third Sunday of Easter

Texts: Acts 2:14a, 36-41 + Ps. 116:1-4, 12-19 + 1 Pet. 1:17-23 + Luke 24:13-35 There’s a weekly conversation that happens online, on Twitter in fact (if you can believe it), which those who take part in call #SlateSpeak. It happens on Thursday nights at 8pm Central Time, lasts exactly an hour, and those who … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, April 30, 2017: Third Sunday of Easter →

Sermon: Sunday, August 23, 2015: Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Even the radicals and the revolutionaries among us know that there are pay offs we’ve silently taken that will have to be relinquished if we are going to follow Jesus into a future beyond empire, into a commonwealth without kings, into a body in which we are all precious and beloved, and none of us is expendable.