Sermon – Extremists in Love – January 15 – Rev. J.McDougle
1Sam 3:1-10; Ps 139:1-5, 12-17; 1Cor 6:12-20; John 1:43-51
There is a bumper sticker that I’m particularly fond of. I’m sure you’ve seen it. It reads: Well-behaved women rarely make history. And it’s so true: although the concept can be expanded to include children, men, dogs and horses. The bottom line is that while good behavior allows at least some people to get on comfortably with their lives without interruption; good behavior demands we live our lives by other people’s rules even though they may not be the wisest, or in the best interests of the planet. Read more »
Sermon: Hope’s Gem – 24 Dec, Rev. Dr. Katherine M. Lehman
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Christ (fresco), 1477.
Christmas is a mystery. It’s the mystery of the incarnation. It’s not that it makes no sense. It’s more that it makes an uncanny kind of sense. Or perhaps, the nonsense that it makes continues to arrest and engage us, until we are more capable of ambiguity and ambivalence, more open to multiple meanings. To entertain the mystery of God’s relation to humanity requires a willingness, to venture into what Yeats calls the land of unlikeness (H 464), and as John the Evangelist says, there to find ourselves at home (John1:11). Read more »
