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This summer has developed into quite an adventure.  I don’t think I’ll be in any one place for more than three weeks, which is okay because I just read Bruce Chatwin’s “Songlines.”  He argues that, like the Aboriginal people of Australia, we ought to live life on the road.  This is an email I sentContinue reading “Summer”

One voice beckons to us this season.  John, the baptizer, the cleanser of souls, calls us out of the humdrum to join him in the wild.  In all of the Gospels John calls from the wilderness, and it is to the wilderness we are drawn.  Why the wilderness?  What can we draw from hearing John’sContinue reading “Advent Wilderness”

My second sermon from St. John’s Lafayette Square I don’t know if you’ve seen the trailer for the new movie “2012.”  If you haven’t, the trailer is a series of images of the end of the world.  We see meteors, volcanos, earthquakes.  In one scene you see a Tibetan monk standing atop the Himalayas watchingContinue reading “Advent 1 Sermon”