“If you want peace, work for justice” -Msgr. Oscar Romero I’ve been thinking a great deal about The Nobel Prize speech given by President Obama earlier this week, mostly because a number of friends have sent me links to articles or their thoughts about what Just War or Just Peace would look like. Partly IContinueContinue reading “Obama, war, justice, and hope…”
Author Archives: Mike Angell
Advent Wilderness
One voice beckons to us this season. John, the baptizer, the cleanser of souls, calls us out of the humdrum to join him in the wild. In all of the Gospels John calls from the wilderness, and it is to the wilderness we are drawn. Why the wilderness? What can we draw from hearing John’sContinueContinue reading “Advent Wilderness”
Advent 1 Sermon
My second sermon from St. John’s Lafayette Square I don’t know if you’ve seen the trailer for the new movie “2012.” If you haven’t, the trailer is a series of images of the end of the world. We see meteors, volcanos, earthquakes. In one scene you see a Tibetan monk standing atop the Himalayas watchingContinueContinue reading “Advent 1 Sermon”
Christianity has Consequences a sermon preached at St. John’s Church, October 11, 2009
President Obama came to Church the morning of my first sermon as a seminarian. This is, roughly, what I preached… Christianity has consequences. That’s what our readings tell us today. Christianity has consequences. These are tough readings to face when preaching for the first time as seminarian at St. John’s. What we learn though, isContinueContinue reading “Christianity has Consequences a sermon preached at St. John’s Church, October 11, 2009”
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