Sermons
Sermon: Epiphany 5, Year A, 2/8/2026
Matthew 5:13-20: Salt and Light and Isaiah 58:1-12
As [most of] you are aware, I am from Minnesota. There are plenty of jokes about how our preferred spices are salt and pepper and that ketchup is considered spicy. That may have been true at one time, but I think as people moved to Minnesota from places all over the world, our...
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Sermon: 4th Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A
2/1/2026; Micah 6:1-8 and Matthew 5:1-12 A Wind in the Door by Madeline L’Engle
I’m in an online book club. We met last Sunday afternoon to discuss Madeline L’Engle’s book A Wrinkle in Time. When we were done, I decided to read the next in the four-book series, A Wind in the Door, and read it all by the end of the afternoon on Monday. I didn’t think it wo...
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Sermon: Epiphany 2 Year A 1/18/2026
John 1:29-42
It was just about 2:00 yesterday when I read a post on Facebook that helped me finally understand, or hear, what it was I needed to talk with you about today. It was the story of a very busy, middle-aged businessman whose 80-year-old mother came to live with him. He was nervou...
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Sermon: The Baptism of our Lord, 1/11/2025
Matthew 3:13-17/Baptismal Covenant
I am a part of an ecumenical planning committee working on organizing prayer vigils at ICE detention centers. Yesterday, I participated in a vigil right here in Pewee Valley in response to the shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon by ICE agents. My decisions to partici...
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Sermon: Christmas 2 2026
Matthew 2:1-23 (I expanded the Gospel appointed)
Ever since I came to this diocese, I’ve been learning about and donating to Kentucky Refugee Ministries on your behalf because this is an important part of the diocese’s understanding of their requirement to follow God’s commandment to love one another. Our own Canon Amy is th...
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