On the Netflix series The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the title character emerges from an underground bunker after being held hostage for fifteen years by a man who has convinced her and three other women that the world has been destroyed, and they are the only survivors. When she is rescued, she learns that all…
Month: January 2018
Home By Another Road – A Sermon for the First Sunday after the Epiphany
Has your life ever ended up somewhere you never expected? I am a planner; I have had a lot of plans in my life. I thought that after I left high school, I would always live in a big urban area. Cincinnati is the largest city where I’ve lived. I thought I’d go to…
Open-Hearted
It’s already January 3, so perhaps it’s a little late for a farewell to the previous year, but I was with family and limiting my time online over the holidays. Today I am back in the office for the first day of 2018, easing (ha) into the rhythms of work and worship yet again, and…
An Impossible Secret – A Sermon on Luke 1:26-55 for the 4th Sunday of Advent
You have to listen closely to Mary’s song. You have to listen closely, because it would be easy to hear what we expect to hear. It would be easy to hear, “God has looked with favor on the mightiness of God’s servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed; God has lifted…
