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Text Mark 11:12-125 Setting This was preached for the Introduction to Preaching class at Yale Divinity School. The setting I imagined was: Setting: The only time this comes up in the TEC lectionary is in the Daily Office. So it’s not going to be heard on a Sunday morning unless we go off book. But. It does fit into a Holy Week theme. I more intend this to be preached

Text Revelation 21:1-4, 21:22-22:5 Video Manuscript Trinity Episcopal Church, Southport Evensong, Nov. 3, 2019 May the words of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O God. Who is a saint? How do we honor the saints? Today, All Saints Sunday, is not a funeral. We aren’t giving eulogies at gravesides. But today is a day when we are living in the tension

Texts Friday of Proper 26, Year One, Daily Office Matthew 14:13-21 Ezra 7:27-28, 8:21-36 Psalm 69 Manuscript Morning Prayer, November 8, 2020 St. Luke’s Chapel, Berkeley Divinity School Why didn’t the people bring food? Why weren’t they prepared? If you’ve ever driven a long distance in my car, you know that it’s well supplied with snacks. I’m always prepared to chase Jesus into the Galilean wilderness for a couple days.

Context This sermon was given February 20, 2020 in the context of Prof. Donyelle McCray’s “Radical Lives of Proclamation” class at Yale Divinity School. Each week we studied and preached inspired by a 20th century “life of radical proclamation”. My week was on Archbishop Oscar Romero. Manuscript I’m going to begin by reading the collect used in the Episcopal Church and the Church of England in commemoration of Archbishop Oscar

Texts Friday of Proper 16, Daily Office Year 2 Psalms 16 and 17 Job 9:1-15, 32-35 John 7:37-52 Manuscript Morning Prayer, August 28, 2020 St. Luke’s Virtual Chapel, Berkeley Divinity School One thing I’m not going to do in this 4 minute sermon is a trinitarian explanation of “for as yet there was no spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified”. The gospel of John seems to put in these

Manuscript St. Cuthbert-Beyond-Canner April 10, 2020 May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, o god. Today is friday in holy week. “Good” friday, apparently. What is good about this day? Calling something “good” recalls creation. For each of those days of creation, God acknowledges and names the goodness. The sun, the stars, plants, animals, humans. Those are all called good

Texts Proper 18 Year A Exodus 12:1-14 Psalm 149 Romans 13:8-14 Matthew 18:15-20 Video Manuscript Proper 18 Year A. Berkeley Divinity School Senior Sermon May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O God. The passage from Exodus this evening is a familiar one. The final plague of egypt. The passover. I admit that my internal images probably come more from

Texts Proper 28, Year A 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Matthew 25:14-30 Video Manuscript St. John the Baptist, Lodi November 15, 2020 May the words of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O God. I’m going to be really honest today: I’m afraid. The uncertainty and turmoil in our country and world terrify me. The fear of pandemic has so gripped our world that