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”
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Temples, Fire, and Hope
My sermon from St. John’s Church this morning: Where is your hope? Two years ago we were hearing a lot about hope. One of the presidential candidates’ campaign centered around the word, but both campaigns talked about hope. Hope for a better future. Hope for a quick end to the economic crisis newly looming. HopeContinueContinue reading “Temples, Fire, and Hope”
Slideshow from Emergence Conversation
This is the slideshow from our Emergence Friday at the Seminary discussion: http://public.iwork.com/document/?a=p78147876&d=Presentation_Power_Point.key
Low Anxiety Evangelism
Reading my own words in the last post made me nervous. Evangelism scares me. The very word still makes my spine sort of wiggle against the back of my chair. I know this is specific to my odd liberal culture. On NPR, in the New Yorker, and in most of the Episcopal Church “evangelism” isContinueContinue reading “Low Anxiety Evangelism”
Mike Angell 