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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The prayer that Jesus instructs his followers to pray is a communal prayer, asking not for God to fill my needs, but for the needs of all in the community to be filled. Not just for God to forgive my sins, but for an economy of mercy to prevail in all our dealings with one another. In short, it is a prayer that requires something those who pray it.
![God Touches Jeremiah's Mouth, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55596 [retrieved July 30, 2016]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinchesterBibleJeremiah(cover).GIF.](https://i0.wp.com/thequestionsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/winchesterbiblejeremiahcov-large.jpg?resize=510%2C510&ssl=1)
This sermon was originally preached at Mission Hills UCC, January 31, 2016 Scripture readings: Jeremiah 1:4-10; Luke 4:21-30 I love listening to stories of how people first heard their call, first understood what their life’s vocation would be. For most of us, I think, it’s less of […]