The Cloud of Unknowing: No one building, no one experience, no one scripture, no one community can ever fully capture God with Solomon. I simply pray that this building, this community, can point in a Godward direction. I hope we can point to a God we will never fully capture. I hope we will point to a God who is always bigger than our church.
Tag Archives: Sermon
Compassion
What value defines Christians? In a sermon covering Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a seminarian martyredduring the Civil Rights era , an argument that our central teaching is all about compassion.
No Longer Strangers
Why does faith matter? Why does contemplation matter? Our faith is how we stay sane in a world with insane priorities. Our faith is about seeking the peace that St. Paul talks about. Our faith is about learning to long for a deeper wholeness when all our world offers is more painful division.
The Mustard Seed
There’s an irony in today’s Gospel lesson, which may be hidden to us. We can take scripture ever so seriously. Even those of us who have left behind the more literalistic readings of our earlier lives, tend to treat the Bible with a certain gravitas.
Mike Angell 