‘In the short run, the market is a voting machine; but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.’ I don’t usually quote billionaire investors to begin sermons, but Warren Buffett said this, and they call him the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ for a reason. His inciteful words capture something deep about human behavior and…
We must remember these words and think of them especially now, through Lent. But the most important words in the parable come at the very beginning, when the Master asks the Steward: “What is this I hear about you? Give me an account of your stewardship!” (Lk 16:2). This is the point Jesus was making…
Great Lent in our tradition has always been a reminder that the battle for good, truth and love rages on in a world which opposes all these things. The first Lent was a battle; Jesus’ 40-day fight against the evil one before his world altering ministry for good. Every Lent also begins with a battle…
We always talk about being enlightened in our faith, that the more we know about God, our faith and our church, the closer we are to Him. That works for a little while, but Jesus most often pushes us in the exact opposite direction. He tended to endarken people to faith much more than enlighten…
A life well lived is filling in the blanks in the course of our lives, in joy and in sorrow, until who we are, where we came from and what we are here for, is revealed to us and all those we love well.
This weekend our church remembers the day when Mary and Joseph named their child Jesus. We commonly say that this feast of naming happens eight days after Christmas, but that is an anachronism. In our church, the naming of Jesus is Christmas just as much as his birth and his baptism, they are all part…
Don’t stop with being just children of God, for we have great work to do as we grow up! I think that’s the special message which the Armenian Church and other Orthodox churches have preserved in celebrating Jesus’ baptism, as we are today, as one piece with his Christmas birth. Jesus was born, yes, this…