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April 2017

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 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 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...

February 2017

February 12, 2017

Magical Thinking

Matthew 5:13-20 2017 is bound to be a tough year for folks who are superstitious. ...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

Executive Order

Matthew 25:35-40 My name is Max Wolff. The US turned me away at...

January 22, 2017

Together

Exodus 1:8-20; Matthew 4:12-23 Here’s what I learned this week: sometimes being nasty is the same...

January 19, 2017

Dawn Is Breaking

Isaiah 49:1-7 I was trying to think where I was on this night eight years...

January 15, 2017

Brave

John 1:29-42 For these weeks on Sunday mornings we’re doing the work of worship: hoping...

December 2016

December 18, 2016

As If…We Had the Courage to Go Somewhere New

Matthew 1:18–25 On December 8, just 10 days ago, Senator John Glenn died...

December 04, 2016

As If…We Believed the Prophets

Matthew 3:1-12 Every year during the third week of January, I like to repost on...

November 2016

November 27, 2016

As If…We Were Paying Attention

Matthew 24:36-44 It’s known in church history circles as the Great Disappointment. Followers of Baptist...

November 13, 2016

What Will Destroy Us

Luke 21:5-19 1905 there was a very passionate young librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library...

November 06, 2016

Reflections

All Saints' Day Ephesians 1:11-23 On Monday, March 4, 1861, as part of taking the...

November 01, 2016

We Have to Start Telling Our Truths

So here’s how last week went down for me. It actually all began almost two...

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...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Grief Fatigue

Last week I had the opportunity to meet with a group of millennial social justice...

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...

June 2016

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 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...

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