I wrote recently about the experience of worshiping this year in temporary space because of the chapel fire. One of the biggest blessings for me in this time has been directional. Our old Chapel was set up, like most Episcopal Churches, so that the entire assembly faced one direction. Before the changes instituted by theContinueContinue reading “Seeing Christ in One Another: The Assembly and Worship”
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Silence, Anxiety, and my Dad, a sermon preached for Epiphany 8
We are not a people easily given to silence. We are an anxious people, full of action physical and mental. Silence, for us, has to be learned. We are called “human beings,” but sometimes “human beings” functions more as an aspirational statement. Jon Kabat Zinn, a professor of medicine and teacher of meditation more accuratelyContinueContinue reading “Silence, Anxiety, and my Dad, a sermon preached for Epiphany 8”
San Diego Sermon: Christ to one another
As a seminarian, you get suspicious whenever you are invited to preach. I find great joy in coming home to St. Paul’s, in seeing friends and breaking bread with the community that walked with me at the start of a long process toward ordination. But as a seminarian, you have to be wary when theyContinueContinue reading “San Diego Sermon: Christ to one another”
It’s the end of the world as we know it… (sermon from 11/14)
A couple of weeks ago I was in this pulpit, preaching about the destruction of the temple. And here we are again. In fact it strikes me that about this time last year I was here preaching about the end of the world again. Our rector openly talks about creative preaching scheduling. Maybe the seminarianContinueContinue reading “It’s the end of the world as we know it… (sermon from 11/14)”
Mike Angell 