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October 2016

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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