Audio File of Sermon, 28 Dec. 2014 (click the arrow to hear) The Bible is a people's history; but we rarely think of it that way. No wonder we have domesticated the Christmas story by turning it into a festival of gift-giving and consumption, with Santa Claus as its symbol. So the story of …
Twelve Days of Incarnation
CHRIST IS BORN! GLORIFY HIM! ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΓΕΝΝΑΤΑΙ. ΔΟΞΑΣΑΤΕ. That is the traditional Christmas greeting for Orthodox Christians. It is analogous to the more familiar Easter greeting: "Christ is Risen! Truly he is risen!" The Christmas greeting comes from the first words of the Oration on the Theophany by St. Gregory of Nazianzus, which you can …
A Christmas Community
(I apologize that I had to remove the audio file of my complete sermon, as there seems to have been a technical glitch. In compensation, I'll try to flesh out the brief version of my sermon below. Check back in a day or two to see if I have expanded what is shown here.) A …
You know what is boring?
Audio file of today's sermon "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means …
Marks of Community
Today's Gospel reading, Luke 13:10-17, should be read in the context of the entire chapter 13 of Luke. Jesus heals the woman who was bent over for eighteen years in the midst of various parables and confrontational dialogues. What unifies all these segments of chapter 13 is the idea of community. A careful reading of this …
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