Sermons for January 2016
Called
Thirty years ago this week I was in fifth grade. We were watching live TV in our homeroom class. “And… lift off!” the announcer sang out. “Lift off of the twenty-fifth space shuttle mission.” The cameras clicked and the crowds cheered. We watched as the Challenger hurtled into the dark blue sky. And then,… Read More
Embodied
Our neighbor—I’ll call her Rachel—brought her daughter over to play with Eliza one afternoon. The girls (who are first-grade classmates) scurried off to play. Rachel followed my spouse Jen and me into the kitchen. The conversation started light-heartedly but quickly went deeper—into her struggles with her five children, her aging father, and her… Read More
Word and Flesh
Audio File When I was in college I fell in love with Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. For those of you a bit older than I am, you may very well be nodding your heads in agreement, as you probably grew up with this scientific mini-series as a part of your childhood. And those of you… Read More
Word and Flesh
When I was in college I fell in love with Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. For those of you a bit older than I am, you may very well be nodding your heads in agreement, as you probably grew up with this scientific mini-series as a part of your childhood. And those of you a bit younger… Read More