Meghan

25 posts
Hospital chaplain, artfully and heart-fully setting out on my own adventures in theodicy, living an unrefined faith in a holy world.

Some Thoughts On Joy (Advent III)

On this third week of Advent, I was invited to light the candle of Joy in church and to speak about the joys which God is bringing me in the world. As I sat down to reflect on this, I immediately began to wonder why […]

What’s Hope Got to Do With It?

A sermon on Genesis 1:1-5, preached at Park Avenue Christian Church, New York, NY, on November 27, 2022 (Advent I). Watch it on YouTube here. When beginning he, God, created the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was shapeless and formless and bleakness covered […]

Concerning mothers (and all birthing bodies)

This past Lent, I set upon a project of creating an eight-panel version of the Stations of the Cross. My own version, which I dubbed the “Bioethics Stations of the Cross,” sought to hold biblical vignettes from the day of Jesus’ crucifixion in dialogue with […]

Easter Questions for Resurrection People

  Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance, so she ran off to Simon Peter and the […]

Reaching Further: CPE Level II Learning Goals

At the start of each unit of CPE, we begin by setting learning goals and mapping out how we plan to address them.  Crafting a good learning goal—let alone the 2-5 learning goals you’re probably expected to produce—takes careful consideration and reflection. And nailing down […]

Living in the “Not Yet” Times

A sermon preached at the Sunday worship service at Church in the Highlands in White Plains, NY, on November 14, 2021. Scripture readings: Daniel 12: 1-3 Mark 13: 1-8 I wonder if any among you, if asked to name your favorite Bible verse, would point […]

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Who is Jesus? A Sermon on Mark 4:35-41

  This sermon was originally delivered for the online Sunday worship service at Park Avenue Christian Church, New York, NY, on July 4, 2021. View the recording here. In the dark of the evening they set out on the lake, assured in the navigational skills […]

Inspire: Joy

This reflection was originally written for and shared at Park Avenue Christian Church in New York, NY, for the online Sunday service on August 23, 2020. Our theme for the month of August is Joy. There’s a funny paradox about joy: as wonderful and desirable […]

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A Preposterous Hypothesis: A Sermon on Matthew 14:22-33

This sermon was originally delivered at the online Sunday service of Scarsdale Congregational Church in Scarsdale, NY, on August 9, 2020. We are capable of more than we imagine. I witnessed this truth in action over and over when I used to work as a […]

Case Study: Palliative Care Chaplaincy in the Age of COVID-19

This verbatim case presentation was an assignment submitted for the course Essentials of Palliative Care Chaplaincy, from the CSU Institute of Palliative Care. At the time, I wondered if it may have been a mistake for me to take this course right at the start […]