February 15, 2015, The Rev. Doyt L. Conn, Jr. preaching
Richard Rohr, in his book Immortal Diamond, says, ‘The agenda of the soul is to have no agenda whatsoever EXCEPT to see what is, as it is.’ That is what I want to talk about, seeing what is, as it is.”
February 1, 2015, The Rev. Doyt L. Conn preaching
November 9, 2014, Holly Boone preaching
“I bet you think I’m going to talk about the m-word, money. Maybe the people who stayed home this morning thought I was going to talk about the m-word, too. Apparently people, especially Episcopalians, hate talking about that word. So let’s talk about something else, something more important. Let’s talk about souls and how we care for them at Epiphany.”
August 3, 2014, Wellesley Chapman preaching
When faced even with the banal stresses of daily life, God’s grace and compassion for us can seem quite distant. The pace of our lives can make it easy to get behind on our psalm reading, and our trust in God’s loving kindness gets further and further from our souls. And we suffer.
June 22, 2014, The Rev. Doyt Conn preaching
Today I’d like to continue the conversation we started last week about the soul. This is my thesis: the soundness of souls will bring salvation to the world.
June 15, 2014, The Rev. Doyt Conn preaching
Today we are going to talk about the soul: ”How goes it with your soul?”
March 16, 2014, The Rev. Doyt Conn preaching
Whatever we were born with, whatever gifts or talents, whatever struggles or impediments, whatever structures of privilege or structures of poverty we have inherited, this is enough to move us toward salvation. By the standards of the world inheritances are not equal; but in the eyes of God, whatever we are given is equally capable of bringing us salvation. We have what we have been given at birth to be used to move us toward God. It is enough… but the choice is ours.
June 3, 2012, The Rev Kate Wesch preaching
At my house, we’ve been reading a lot of Curious George books lately. You know, the children’s series about George the monkey and his friend, the man with the yellow hat. My one and a half year old daughter loves them. Her current favorite is entitled, “Happy Easter, Curious George.”
March 25, 2012, The Rev. Doyt Conn preaching
I was in Haiti a while back, and I remember being awaken in the middle of the night by gunshots… many, many gunshots, as if a coup had broken out. I lay perfectly still in bed. Eventually they stopped. But my eyes didn’t close the rest of the night.The next morning I asked my hosts, “What happened?”“Oh,” they replied, “Brazil beat Argentina in the semi-finals of the World Cup. We love Brazilian soccer in Haiti!”
Everyone heard the shots, not everyone heard them the same way. That is the same in the Gospel we hear today. Everyone heard the thunder, not everyone heard it the same way.