Keep Doing What We’re Doing | The Annual Appeal

Sermon | October 11, 2026

To watch, please click here. There is a church in Rome called San Paolo fuori le Mura… Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls. I had never been there before this pilgrimage, and I was not prepared for what I experienced. It is where the bones of the apostle Paul are buried. As I knelt there gazing

Make Room For Love

Sermon | May 3, 2026

To watch the sermon click here. I grew up in Detroit, in the city, and I went to school in a suburb called Grosse Pointe. I loved the school I went to. I loved the gothic building, the green acres of land that it sat on, I loved that it was right on the water

Joseph’s Mother

Sermon | May 11, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. I recently returned from my annual retreat in Montana, where I gathered with six men I went to seminary with. We’ve been praying together for 25 years. Once a month we talk by phone, and once a year we gather in Montana to review our lives, to wrestle with

Tears are the Lens through Which we See Clearly

Sermon | March 16, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. This season is an opportunity for practicing lament. In the gospel today, Jesus laments what is happening in his world when he says, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it!” I have had a lot of lament on my heart

We Are All Mothers

Sermon | January 5, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. We meet Mother Mary in today’s Gospel. She is a new mother, and trouble is brewing. She feels it in her gut. She heard it from Simeon in the Temple in Jerusalem when they brought baby Jesus to be circumcised. Then Joseph had a dream instructing them to leave

You are Part of God’s Plan

Sermon | December 24, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Merry Christmas! It is good to see you here this evening. This is the night when we remember the story of the birth of Jesus, isn’t it. It is a big story that had a big impact on the entire world. And yet, it bloomed forth from a lot of

Life is About Practices

Sermon | October 20, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. When Margaret, my twenty-five year old daughter, was in third grade, we were living in Los Angeles. After one of her soccer games, where she probably scored five goals, which was not unusual, “A big guy, tall guy, tears in his eyes came up to me…” that’s a Seth

God in Front of Us: Love as Co-creation

Sermon | June 30, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. “If I live in love, then I am always investing myself in the future of another” (Ilia Delio The-Not-Yet-God, p. 258). That’s a quote from an author I’ve been reading lately. Her name is Ilia Delio, and she is a Franciscan nun (my speech to text spells this “none,”

When Jesus Calls You Family

Sermon | June 9, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. My sister Kimmi is 5 years younger than I am. I had to watch her a lot when we were growing up. One time, when she was 6, maybe 7 years old, something our parents did or said or wouldn’t let her do made Kimmi really, really mad. Mad

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