Following Jesus can put you at odds with the world. Following Jesus can put you at odds with you friends, and your denomination, and your political party. Following Jesus can get you in trouble. Daniel Berrigan, the famous Jesuit activist, likes to say, “If you want to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.”
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Code-switching and Preaching: knowing your context.
Preaching, at its best, expresses the Gospel in a specific context. Code-switching helps us to understand the contexts in which we preach. My previous post focused on the danger of code-switching into “preacher voice.” Before we can understand others’ contexts, before we can hear another’s code, we have to know our own. My undergraduate thesisContinueContinue reading “Code-switching and Preaching: knowing your context.”
Where do we begin? A sermon for the First Sunday after the Epiphany
Where do we begin? I find myself focused this morning on beginnings. “In the beginning,” the first words of the Bible. Really, the first word. “Berishit” in Hebrew, just one word. “In the beginning.” Mark’s Gospel also centers on a beginning. Mark, as usual, wastes no time. John announces “one is coming after me,” andContinueContinue reading “Where do we begin? A sermon for the First Sunday after the Epiphany”
Commun(e?) ity
Yesterday evening Jason Evans and I laughed as we attempted to flip buffalo burgers on the grill, each of us holding a beer in one hand and a utensil in the other. Meals at the Hawthorn House are a happy experiment, bringing together family recipes, sustainable ingredients, curiosity, and a desire to share food withContinueContinue reading “Commun(e?) ity”
Mike Angell 