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October 23, 2016
What Lies Ahead
2 Timothy 4:6-8; 16-18 I don’t know about you, but I haven’t given much...
October 18, 2016
Anatomy of a conference: Why God and Guns?
At the beginning of October, The Riverside Church hosted God and Guns: Faith Leaders Address...
October 09, 2016
What Lies Within
2 Timothy 2:8-15 With all due respect to all you brilliant academics out there, I...
October 04, 2016
Refuse to be Amused
I think it is an objective fact that this presidential election is a circus, a...
October 02, 2016
What Lies Behind
2 Timothy 1:1-14 World Communion Sunday In addition to my well-known aversion to most animals...
September 2016
September 25, 2016
Bridging the Great Divide
Luke 16:19-31 Thomas Jefferson, as you know, is famous for many things. One thing in...
September 21, 2016
Bread on the Water
In April 2015 I gave the closing address at Faith Forward in Chicago. It ended...
September 11, 2016
Found
Luke 15:1-10 I don’t quite know why I was so surprised by this. As...
September 06, 2016
Out of Many, One
I doubt I’m telling you something you don’t know, but just in case you’re wondering,...
August 2016
August 28, 2016
People Are Watching
Luke 14:1; 7-14 When I was in seminary I had a professor who taught us...
August 23, 2016
Bent Over
You would think that after preaching almost four cycles of the Revised Common Lectionary a...
August 09, 2016
Facebook, Family, and Surviving the Election
In this week’s column I talk about the pain that comes when politics divides us...
August 07, 2016
Quit Your Job
Luke 12:32-40 “It’s time to quit your job and start living the life you’ve always...
July 2016
July 26, 2016
Grief Fatigue
Last week I had the opportunity to meet with a group of millennial social justice...
July 24, 2016
When God Gets Political: Next
Hosea 1:2-10 For the last few weeks we’ve been talking about what happens with God...
July 17, 2016
When God Gets Political: Enough
Amos 8:1-12 This past week I had the opportunity to visit harambee. Harambee is the...
July 12, 2016
The Pastoral is Political
I told this story in my sermon Sunday: I met a new friend the other...
July 10, 2016
When God Gets Political: Interrupted
When God Gets Political: Interrupted Amos 7:1-17 I met a new friend the other day,...
June 2016
June 28, 2016
No More Vigils for Gun Violence
Last week we witnessed an inspiring demonstration of leadership as Democrats in Congress staged a...
June 25, 2016
Love Marches On
Happy Pride weekend, New York City! I bring you greetings tonight from our community in which...
June 20, 2016
People of Faith Demand Better
Together with my colleague Rev. Kevin Wright, we invited our community Sunday to demand better...
June 19, 2016
Obey and Submit
1 Peter 2:13-30; 3:1-9 We find ourselves this morning grappling with a difficult text...
June 14, 2016
After Orlando, Our Silence is Sin
The following is a letter to pastors and church leaders. Colleagues: Sunday found us waking...
June 13, 2016
Chosen
1 Peter 2:1-9; 16 Just a few weeks ago during lunch on a senior staff...
June 05, 2016
A Matter of Life and Death
1 Peter 1:3-9; 5:6-11 As is the case for most sermons on the topic of...
May 2016
May 31, 2016
A High Bar
The world of college football was rocked last week — at least that’s what they...
May 25, 2016
Victims, Violence, and “Values”: Hypocrisy at Baylor
Hypocrisy always makes for a sexy story. Perhaps it’s the justice of seeing the self-righteous...
May 22, 2016
Losing Our Minds
Losing Our Minds Romans 5:1-5 Some authors have quoted church father Augustine of Hippo as...
May 17, 2016
Welcoming Chaos
Pentecost always seems like such a celebration at church. At our church everyone wears red,...
May 15, 2016
If We Knew Then…
If We Knew Then… Acts 2:1-21 Growing up in a big family we were committed...
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