St. John’s Church, Lafayette Square has been experimenting in social media for a few years now. “Experimenting” is the word because we have not yet developed a comprehensive engagement strategy or even a set of guiding principles. We’ve been letting the communication happen, or not happen, organically. Tonight I am tasked with talking with ourContinueContinue reading “Social Media and the Church”
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A Sermon on Privacy
Today’s lessons give us two very different images of men who are secluded. Elijah the Tishbite, on the run from Ahab and Jezebel, hides in a cave on Mt. Horeb. A man from Geras inhabits the tombs outside the village because his seizures make him unfit to live with the other Gerasenes. Both men haveContinueContinue reading “A Sermon on Privacy”
Demons and Georgetown… a sermon for Epiphany IV
The heart of today’s Gospel concerns Jesus’ casting out a demon. I’ll be honest: I was tempted to tiptoe around the exorcism. Exorcism is tricky to preach on, especially for Episcopalians. We don’t generally go in for that exorcism business, especially not at a place like St. John’s Lafayette Square. Exorcism, we all know itContinueContinue reading “Demons and Georgetown… a sermon for Epiphany IV”
Surely God is in the place, and I didn’t realize. Sermon from July 17, 2011
Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place—and I did not know it!” Jacob’s story today is a claim of sacred geography. “Surely God is in this place.” The claim is surprising. God is in the “place,” the “holy place,” of people of Haran, not followers of theContinueContinue reading “Surely God is in the place, and I didn’t realize. Sermon from July 17, 2011”
Mike Angell 