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Jesus loved to use parables. A good storyteller knows how to grab an audience, keep their attention, and get the message across, whether...

So last Sunday I preached a sermon that included the parable that we read at today's Mass. The parable is a rousing condemnation of how...

[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday,...

We have elevated whining to an art form. Seriously, an accomplished person can take their major (and especially minor) afflictions, spin...

We humans have an extraordinary capacity for neither forgiving nor forgetting. Personal and tribal and national affronts get carved in...

The beginning of a solar year is totally arbitrary. We celebrate the start of our new cycle around the sun on January 1, but the Romans,...

[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday,...

[Sermon composed for the Sunday broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for Sunday,...

[Sermon composed for the Mattins broadcast at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ (https://www.stmarysphoenix.org/online) for the...

[Sermon recorded for the online service for the Seventh Sunday of Easter/First Sunday of Ascensiontide, 2020, for St. Mary’s Episcopal...

[Sermon recorded for the online service for the Third Sunday of Easter, 2020, for St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix AZ. The recording...

[Sermon delivered for St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church’s online Mass for Laetare Sunday (Lent IV), March 22, 2020, telecast on...

[This sermon was delivered at the preaching workshop for the Aquinas House midyear meeting of the Anglican Order of Preachers (Dominican)...

[Sermon for Quinquagesima Sunday, February 23, 2020, delivered at The Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Phoenix AZ] In the Name of...

[Sermon for Epiphany III, January 26, 2020, delivered at The Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Phoenix AZ] In the Name of the...