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“The Ascension is seen as an historical event, a public event, in the sense that anybody who had been there, would have seen it. Is this how we are to think of the Ascension? An event that either happened or did not happen, on a particular day in a particular place? Or…

"It was about 20 minutes before midnight  on April 14 1912.

Two hours and 40 minutes later, the Titanic was gone.

More than 1500 people died that night. One of them was Wallace…

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"Divinity belongs to the post-Easter jesus, not the pre-Easter Jesus. To think of Jesus as divine actually diminishes him. If he was divine and had the power of God, then what he did wan’t all that remarkable. He could’ve…

“The more we move away from Biblical literalism and step beyond simplistic ways of thinking about a God in the sky, the more we will become aware of the awesome mystery that lies before us, and the more we will begin to learn the real meaning of faith, moving toward…

“The more we move away from Biblical literalism and step beyond simplistic ways of thinking about a God in the sky, the more we will become aware of the awesome mystery that lies before us, and the more we will begin to learn the real meaning of faith, moving toward…

“The more we move away from Biblical literalism and step beyond simplistic ways of thinking about a God in the sky, the more we will become aware of the awesome mystery that lies before us, and the more we will begin to learn the real meaning of faith, moving toward…

“To gain the Church and forfeit the True God?

Lent 2 March 4, 2012

“If God was real and had the power to intervene to stop the Holocaust, but had declined to do so, then God was both responsible and…

"Most of us could be nominated for an Academy Award for playing the part of whomever we are pretending to be to gain the approval of our peers. Imagine if you could be completely at ease with who you are and completely let others be who they are. Stand…

“I believe that Jesus reached that mountain top of transfiguration

and has left us a path in his teachings and in his life that can be modeled and can potentially lead to the same kind of experience of…

“I totally am in agreement with Jefferson Bethke when it comes to his focus on following Jesus, Jesus who valued honesty and equality, kindness and compassion, valued treating people the way youwant to be treated, and valued helping…

“The church did not escape then. And the church is not escaping now.

Something has shifted in the collective psyche.

Religion has lost its hold and its aliveness for lots of people.

On April 8th, 1966, there…

Advent 1 November 27 2011

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There’s a sweet, sweet Spirit in this place

And I know that it’s the Spirit of the…

“Together, the kids crumpled up the sheet of paper and set fire to it.

Those things they had been told to believe went up in smoke.

Their homework tonight will be an…

Pentecost 18 October 16, 2011

Stephen Colbert said, “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he…

Pentecost 16 October 2, 2011

The Jesus movement was a threat to the authority of a religious establishment, and the establishment was out to destroy them.

Christian support for marriage equality today is clearly a threat to the…

“The first shall be last?”

Pentecost 14 September 18, 2011

In God’s kingdom there is a new economic order based on need.

Violence is…

“Taking the road less traveled”

Pentecost 12 September 4,…

Attended church at St. Andrew's in Schroon Lake yesterday. Counted attendance of 25. Turned out that six of us, including the celebrant, were priests. I told Fr. Limpert that he's apparently a "priest magnet"! (He is a very good preacher.) After the service I went with Michael and Catherine…