When we make room for God, who is always among us, we open our lives in vulnerability to the power of love. Love isn’t a soft, insipid emotion. It is a power for transformation. Today as we gather, let us pray for a greater openness to God; let us set an intention to make more room in our lives for what is holy and good; let us commit to an expansive, inclusive way of life. Here’s a sermon based on the Gospel of Mark 2.15-17 and “The Guesthouse” by Rumi. Second Sunday of Advent 2021

In the early part of Mark, chapter two, the Gospel writer sets up the story we’ve just read about Jesus at a table with a bunch of “tax collectors and sinners.” The writer is expanding a theme in these two stories, illustrating the ways the gospel of Jesus is about creating a bigger table. . . .

My sermon on February 28, 2021. Theme: Health care for all is not only a human right, it's a metaphysical necessity. We’re all interconnected, you see? When one suffers, we all suffer. When one is healing we’re all being healed. That’s what it means that the whole world, the entire cosmos is the Body of Christ, and we are, individually members of it. A sermon based on Matthew 8.5-13.

About a year ago, on Sunday, March 1, 2020, just before all this change and challenge fell upon us, I explored the implications of Saint Paul’s vision for the way human beings can relate to one another. We were reading a section from his Letter to the Romans. From that ancient text I was explaining the Christian vision for the truth that we are deeply connected, physically and spiritually. . . .

A Place at the Table: Toward the gospel of inclusion

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