2 Cor 12:2-10; Mk 6:1-13 As many of you know, I grew up in a devout Southern Baptist home. We went to church every time the doors were open—Sunday morning services, Sunday evening services, Tuesday night visitation, Wednesday night prayer meeting, Friday night youth group meeting, and Saturday work parties. We were all in. We were committed. But you want to know what was weird? We never talked about your own spiritual experiences in my family. It was as if an awkward kind of

Ps 30; Mk 5:21-43 The decision to become a pastor in the United Church of Christ was complicated. First, the relationship of our parish with the UCC was complicated. Also, I wasn’t sure it was a good fit for me, liturgically. But I was faced with a bit of a professional crisis. Lisa had just applied for a position at Harvard—which, obviously, she did not get. But it freaked me out a little. I was an Old Catholic bishop at the time, and I realized, “If Lisa gets this job on th