(This is a meditation I was asked to write for the Episcopal Church’s Young Adults’ email listserv for today.) Psalm 22:1a My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Today is Good Friday, and today the tomb is full. Jesus has died a miserable and tortured death. The death of Jesus was not unlikeContinueContinue reading “Good Friday”
Category Archives: Lent
Lenten Disciplines
My Lent last year was well planned. My friend Bradley and I had decided to practice the Ignatian examen, to spend a few minutes at the end of each day taking prayerful inventory. For centuries, St. Ignatius and his followers, the Jesuits, have taught this method of taking stock of events in the day toContinueContinue reading “Lenten Disciplines”
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”
Sermon from Sunday Feb. 21- Shaun White and Jesus
Today is the First Sunday of Lent, and we begin with Jesus in the desert. The story seems a good place to start. Jesus spends 40 days in the desert, in fasting and prayer, to prepare for the start of his ministry. We, like the early church, spend the 40 days in preparation. It turnsContinueContinue reading “Sermon from Sunday Feb. 21- Shaun White and Jesus”
Mike Angell 