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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s not that I don’t think staying current on the news is important, [but]…in common with many women and men out there, I’ve been feeling as though current events in politics are directly related to painful and shameful parts of my personal history, events I would rather not be invited to relive
“You have a hard job,” said the man I was sitting with at 3:30 am, whose elderly mother had just passed away. I sat with him so he wouldn’t be alone, and listened to him share feelings of disbelief…
After attending an exhibition of Edvard Munch at the Met Breuer, a brief reflection on art as another way to heal, pray, and do theology.
For my second unit of CPE, these are the three learning goals I’ve crafted for myself, in covenant with my peers and supervisors. They are written in alignment with the Objectives for Level II CPE, as outlined by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.