"What is so interesting to me in this is that surrounded by needs, and wants and longings, Jesus looks at his weird and wonderful congregation and doesn’t tell them to get something, or to become something or to do something – he tells them who...

"We cannot expect our religion to save us if we do not remember our relationship with God and take seriously God’s desire for justice."Text: Micah 6:1-8, Matthew 5:1-12preached for St Ignatius of Antioch, Manhattan, on Feb 1, 2026...

"There are things that we will never know. That can be discouraging, but it can also be motivating... I don't love it. I don't love this idea that we will never know. But this is how we begin our Advent season: in the strangeness, and the darkn...

"We submit to God’s power by refusing to harm each other.We obey God’s power by rejecting the pressures of our world to punish, to win, or to control any part of God’s created world."text: Luke 23:33-43preached at S...

"We meet the mother of Jesus in this gospel not when she gives birth to his physical body, but when she gives birth to his ministry, at the wedding in Cana. The first time we see Jesus mother in John is at the beginning of the second chapter – ...