Pentimento
Mark 1:9-15 On this first Sunday of Lent, you’ve noticed that the layout of the service is different than usual. Not only are we doing Morning Prayer as the main […]
Christ Transfigured Within: Plumbing the Depths of the Holy in You
Today is the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, also known as Quinquagesima: the Sunday that occurs immediately before Ash Wednesday, fifty days before Easter. This is the Sunday when the […]
The See-Saw
Mark 1:14-20 Gracious God: help us today not only “to see the light but be the light” and to know “that our country is not broken, just not finished.”Amen. Many […]
Prejudice Disrupted: Creating Kinship in Our Own Nazareths Together
In the name of Jesus, God Incarnate, and son of Joseph from Nazareth in Galilee. Amen. David Brooks’ recent New York Times article begins with this statement: [2020] is the […]
The Other Way
I rarely drive places these days. Do you remember places? I do. I recall that lovely feeling of finding my way from one place to another, the knowledge that comes […]
A Cosmic Christmas Story
John 1:1- 18 In the name of God, eternally reborn. Amen. The presents have been opened, Santa and the reindeer are back at the North Pole, the snow arrived on […]
Joy Stirred Up
A Sermon by Jayan Koshy for the Third Sunday of Advent (Year B) My Indian grandmother is the one who taught me to love the Psalms. Every morning Ammachi […]
In Wakeful, Dark Nights of the Soul, Suffering Reveals the Nearness of God
In the name of the Creator, the Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. This morning’s rather unsettling Gospel passage is excerpted from what is known as the Little Apocalypse – […]
The Promise
Ephesians 1:15-23; Matthew 25:32-46 The year 2020 cannot end soon enough for many of us. The murder of George Floyd, the stress and outrages of the presidential debates, the election and […]
Investing in Justice
A few weeks ago my paternal grandmother sold the family home in rural Ohio. None of us was too sad, she sold it to my cousin, so it stays in […]