• Don’t Look Away

    A sermon on Matthew 10.24-39 for part of our series on worship, Becoming Fully Human. I recently discovered the setting on my phone that tracks the amount of screen time I’m using every day with various apps. There’s nothing quite like your phone telling you, “hey, you need to chill out a little bit.” I…

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  • Root & Branch

    This is a sermon I preached in Union City, Michigan on the second Sunday of Advent. See if you can count the number of Ursula Le Guin references. Back in 2014 I made a pilgrimage to Scotland. (I was ordained while I was there.) One of the places we saw was Glasgow Cathedral, in the…

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  • This is the sermon I preached this past Sunday as part of our Be the Church series, the UCC’s initiative to get congregations thinking about what it means to be a church on the move. My family is from southwestern Virginia, near the border of North Carolina and a short drive from the town that…

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