When I was in seminary, my best friend and I got in a huge fight. Or maybe it wasn’t much of a fight as much as we didn’t really talk. There were a hundred reasons
We are entering the Season of Creation, an annual time of the liturgical year that has been substituted for the month of September leading up to the Feast of St Francis, patron Saint of ecology
What we have in this story today, in this situation Paul has found himself, is an encounter between how he is living faithfully and the power of the world. He is caught between the former,
We are drawing to a close with our time in Acts. On September 1st we’ll be doing something new, we’ll be in a Season of Creation--a time to look at the world with celebration as
In late March and early April, in the first serious days of Pandemic, there were folks who would go out and take pictures of Time Square, the Highways in Los Angeles, city center in Chicago,
I want you to think for a moment about something that you do well. How did you get there? There might be some things that you predisposed to being better at than others, but to
One of my favorite things in the version of the story we heard today from the New Revised Standard is the opening words: Some people. Which could just be said “there were some people.”
Despite the fact that Acts was one of my first choices as part of your community, Acts is rarely my first selection. When looking at the lectionary--the 3 year cycle of Scripture that typically include
The story of Acts that we have been working through for a while now has bulldozing downhill. From the moment the Holy Spirit came to the disciples in the upper room at Pentecost, this little
Let me tell you about this thing I did: I needed to run the dishwasher and I was out of soap. And I needed gas and really needed a coffee, you’ll understand in a minute.
