September 15, 2021 Dear members and friends of Grace North Church: I write you with great joy and gratitude after my first day serving as...

Easter 5 | Jn 15:1-8 The Buddha died like any other human being. When I arrived in Kushinigar several years ago, the place where he died,...

LENT 3 | Ps 19; 1Cor 1:18-25; Jn 2:13-22 In 1521, at the Diet of Worms, Martin Luther gave his famous “Here I stand—I can do no other”...

Elizabeth Jennings, January 31 FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY 2021 Deuteronomy 18:17-20, 1 Corinthians 8:1-7a, Tao Te Ching 73, Mark...

Zechariah 9:9-12; Romans 7:15-25a; Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations; Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 (The sermon begins with Elizabeth singing a song...

Gen 22:1-14; Rom 6:12-23 In the Kena Upanishad, we read a story that isn’t about what it’s about on the surface, but about a major...

Icon by Robert Lentz https://www.trinitystores.com/artist/br-robert-lentz-ofm Song: “I Shall Not Want” I love that song. I chose to sing...

A famous psychological study in 1999 asked participants to watch a brief video of two groups of people passing basketballs —some dressed...

Maundy Thursday 2019 | Exodus 12:1-13, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Egyptian Book of the Dead spell 42 Last year I stayed at an Airbnb managed...

LENT 2 | Gen 15:1-18; Phil 3:17-4:1; Lk 13:31-35 The letter from St. Paul that we just read a portion of was written to the Christians in...