Category Archives: Pilgrimage

Sermon for Palm Sunday, Security or Hope?

Palm Sunday is an odd Sunday to start as a new rector. I just want to put that out there in the open. It’s odd. Hello, I’m your new rector, my name is Mike. I’m grateful to be here. Now let’s crucify Jesus…together. Well, before we get there, let’s pause for Palm Sunday. We’ve justContinueContinue reading “Sermon for Palm Sunday, Security or Hope?”

Wisemen and Mad Men (an Epiphany sermon).

What star do you follow?  What road do you walk? The story of the three wise men that we have today from Matthew, is strange.  Three nameless travelers follow a star to kneel before the child Jesus.  There is no way around the strangeness.  We variously have called these characters “the wise men,” or theContinueContinue reading “Wisemen and Mad Men (an Epiphany sermon).”

Prophet Bishops and Pilgrimage

Yesterday someone took shots at a friend and pastor.  The Rt. Rev. Martín Barahona, Anglican Bishop of El Salvador was the victim of the violence which plagues his country.  Thankfully the would-be-killer’s bullets missed the Bishop.  Sadly his driver Francisco is in the hospital. Shots fired at a Bishop resound specifically this week.  On SaturdayContinueContinue reading “Prophet Bishops and Pilgrimage”