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November 2017

November 07, 2017

The Church Must Lead in Talking About Sexual Harassment

Early in my first pastorate I found myself leading a church in the process of...

November 05, 2017

Receive This Blessing

Matthew 5:1-12 If we were playing a game of word association and I said the...

October 2017

October 15, 2017

Wedding Crashers

Matthew 22:1-14 There are so many uncertainties in life, so very little we can ever...

October 01, 2017

The Posture of a Pilgrim

Image: Courtney Pomeroy Poem: Jan Richardson Philippians 2:1-11 When I turned 40 I finished my...

September 2017

September 24, 2017

What Belongs to Me

Matthew 20:1-16 I believe that fifth grade was my favorite year of school ever. And...

September 17, 2017

Forgiveness, a Prayer

Today in worship we talked about forgiveness. Rev. Michael Livingston preached an amazing sermon on...

September 11, 2017

A Prayer for Sunday

by Michael Livingston, Executive Minister God of wind and rain, sun and moon, peaks...

September 10, 2017

All We Need Is Love

Matthew 18:15-20 Our world is literally swirling around us, and so many of us are...

September 03, 2017

I Have Decided

Matthew 16:21-28 Whenever I read our gospel lesson from the sixteenth chapter of Matthew’s gospel...

June 2017

June 22, 2017

He Wasn’t Who I Thought

In that moment I felt we stepped onto a small piece of ground that was...

June 18, 2017

Hysterical

Genesis 18:1-15; 21:1-7 Some of you may recall back in 2015 when the New York...

June 11, 2017

The End and the Beginning (Trinity Sunday)

Matthew 28:16-20 “And some doubted.” This may just be my favorite Bible verse of all...

June 06, 2017

You Can Never Go Home Again

You know the saying that goes, “You can never go home again”? The phrase was...

June 04, 2017

Learning to Listen (Pentecost Sunday)

Genesis 11:1-11 I know that extra room in a Manhattan apartment is unusual, so I’m...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

Strong Leadership and ‘Making Straight What Has Been Crooked”

Our news feeds have been filled with depressing stories lately of leaders who demonstrate marked...

May 21, 2017

Never Alone

John 14:15-21 In the summer of 1984, everyone I knew was preoccupied with the blockbuster...

May 14, 2017

Sad, Scared, and Stingy

John 14:1-14 While other girls in my elementary school wore their brownie uniforms: jumpers with...

May 09, 2017

Caring for Creation: Idea or Action?

Recently The Riverside Church announced our intention to divest our $140 million endowment over the...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Signs of Life: Clue

Luke 24:13-35 Today is the third Sunday of Easter, a whole season celebrating resurrection. It...

April 23, 2017

Signs of Life

John 21:1-19 What are you supposed to do after resurrection? I mean, really. What are...

April 18, 2017

This is Only the Beginning of Resurrection

My Facebook feed tells me that a lot of people I know and love spent...

April 16, 2017

A Matter of Life and Death

Matthew 28:1-10 Christ is risen! Christ is risen, indeed! In America and Great Britain in...

April 13, 2017

Goodbyes: A Meditation for Maundy Thursday

I think that one of the hardest and most beautiful parts of being human is...

April 09, 2017

Everything Must Change: Protest

Matthew 21:1-11 Try to imagine what it was like that day. The weather hadn’t started...

April 04, 2017

50 years after ‘Beyond Vietnam’: What’s changed?

April 4, 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” a...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

Lessons from St. Patrick’s Day

“Our people know about coffin ships — boats that sink to the bottom of the...

March 19, 2017

Everything Must Change: The Past

Exodus 17:1-7 You cannot have grown up in the 1980s without having had your childhood...

March 12, 2017

Everything Must Change: Home

Genesis 12:1-9 Even if I had a blindfold on, I would know I was at...

March 07, 2017

Truth in a Post-Fact World

These days the words of the Psalmist keep coming to mind: “I will lift up my...

March 05, 2017

Everything Must Change: Paradise

Genesis 2:5-17; 3:1-7 Controversy is swirling in conservative Christian circles this week over the release...

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