So perhaps all peoples take themselves too seriously, too often. This is where our faith comes in and its helpful to recall that God seems to have baked humor and laughter into his creation. ‘Alone among the animals, man is shaken with that beautiful madness called laughter,’ said Chesterton, ‘as if he had caught sight…
I would like to start today’s Easter sermon with a few questions. ‘How many of you sent out hundreds of Easter Cards this year?” “Has anyone attended a work or family Easter party?” “Is anyone sick of hearing endless Easter carols on the radio and endless Easter-themed television specials?” That’s what I thought, almost nobody.Thank…
‘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.