I can't remember a spring in New England that I've savored with more delight than this one. After a long, hard winter, how sweet it's been to watch colors rise to the surface, to see forsythia and then magnolia, crabapple and now dogwood trees bursting into bloom, to look up at the hills of the Holyoke Range and see a…
Along with - literally - something like half a billion people around the world, this weekend we're celebrating Earth Day. Today is Creation Sunday - a day for giving thanks to God for the extraordinary mystery and miracle of God's Creation. And it's a day for sober reflect
I’d like to say a few words about the disciple we remember as Doubting Thomas. Someone once said that two sorts of people please God: those who serve God with all their heart because they know God, and those who seek God with all their heart because they don’t know God. Most of us have probably spent t
Americans like us don't put much stock in miracles. Most of us are a pragmatic, down-to-earth lot. Give us cold, hard facts, something we can measure, predict, and - best of all - control. Scientific proof is what we like: objective evidence, the laws of nature, reason, logic, a
“Remember! Do you remember?” That’s what I imagine they were saying to each other, this group of men and women gathered in the upper room of a house somewhere in Jerusalem. It was a night not so different from tonight: an evening at or near Passover, the Jewish festival that cele
The showdown has begun. On Palm Sunday, Jesus entered the holy city of Jerusalem. The next day, as we heard in tonight’s reading, he entered its holy place and caused a commotion. He walks into the temple and drives out those who are buying and selling. He overturns the tables o
Today we reach the turning point in Jesus’ ministry. Raising Lazarus is the crowning miracle or sign that reveals Jesus as the giver of life and that also precipitates his death. The raising of Lazarus provokes a meeting of the Sanhedrin, the official Jewish court, which reaches the decision that Jesus must be killed
I'd like us to take a few minutes to imagine that we're the director of a movie. Let's say you've got a camera crew with you and you're flying in a small plane through clear blue skies. Peering out the window, you can see miles of desert laid out far below you, an endless tumble of barren hills
It is wonderful to be with you again. To those of you whom I havent yet met: I served for 8 years as Priest Associate at All Saints until my family and I began packing up last June for a move to western Massachusetts, where I now serve at Grace Church in Amherst. This is my fir
As the cycle of the church year turns, weve now entered Epiphany, the season when we consider the ways that God reveals Gods self to the world through Jesus life and ministry. You can think of Epiphany as the season of full disclosure divine disclosure. Epiphany begins on January 6 with
