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  Because He Lives - Easter III A Sermon Preached at  St. Phillip's Episcopal Church, Laurel, DE April 14, 2024 It was right after Easter that I started asking myself, “Well, Elizabeth,...

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                                       The Temptation of Christ, by Simon Bening When Jesus Met Satan St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Millsboro, DE Lent...

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  “To the Left.” A Sermon for Ash Wednesday - February 14, 2024 St. Mark's Episcopal Church - Millsboro, DE There’s a wonderful book I’ve been reading (and recommend highly) calle...

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 Good Ash Wednesday morning, good people of Lent. It's the first of 40 days of the Lenten Season. Like a fine wine, this season needs to age and then aerate before it is fully appreciated. ...

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  Epiphany II - January 14, 2024 St.Mark's Episcopal Church Millsboro, DE   It was 1925 and Yankee first baseman Wally Pipp had a headache. He decided to sit out the game and lost his p...

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  Note: This is an essay I did for a catalog compiled for the art show: "Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice," currently on display at Brandeis. There is also A Jewish Perspectiv...

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  Pentecost XXII - October 29, 2023 The Episcopal Church of St. Mary Bridgeville, DE The idea seems simple enough. “Love God, love neighbor.” The problem, as always, is in the execu...

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Scenes from an Italian/Roman Bistro MONUMENTS TO HUMANITY AND MUSEUMS OF HUMAN BEINGS. So, yesterday did not turn out the way I had planned but it unfolded exactly as it should have. I'm ...

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 My Great Tuscan Adventure, Day II Buongiorno! It's my first morning waking up in Rome. I slept like a foolish man, as I heard said in Ghana, which is to say very, deeply and soundly, witho...

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My Great Tuscan Adventure, Day I Well, I arrived in Rome at around 9:00 AM, Roman time but it was actually 3 AM in my body. I figure I got about 2 hours of sleep. Which is about what I usual...

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  This is long but, in a word, brilliant. I don't agree with everything in it, but I appreciate the attempt to view the nuance, grey areas and humanity. Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul People ask m...

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  Si vis pacem, para bellum (Publius Flavious, fourth or fifth century) “If you want peace, prepare for war.” That hasn’t worked out so well in the Middle East. On 7 October 2023,...

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A Sermon in celebration of the life of Mary Ann Torkelson, organist and choir director St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Georgetown, DE I’m so glad we could be together this afternoon, despite ...

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Good Sunday morning, good people of the Sabbath. Happy New Year to all who observe and celebrate. It's another bright-bright, sun-shiny day here on the Delmarva Peninsula. It's been a cool ...

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 St. Philip's Episcopal Church Laurel, Delaware Pentecost XV - September 10,2023 When I worked as a Hospice Chaplain in New York, my office was located in Herald Square, Manhattan. A Tran...

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  Good Sunday Morning, good people of the universe. The thunder and rain and lightning last night and this morning are not Hurricane Lee which is still south of us. Apparently, this is a st...

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Good Monday morning, good people of the last day of the long Labor Day weekend. Oddly enough, many people will spend most of this day in their car, driving for miles on long stretches of as...

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  Good Sunday morning, good people of this lovely September morn. Didn't Neil Diamond sing a song with that title? "We danced until the night became a brand new day" is the line dancing aro...

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Good Saturday morning, good people of Labor Day Weekend. It's a fairly glorious morning here on the Delmarva Peninsula. Almost picture-perfect weather for the first weekend in September. Th...

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Good Sunday morning, good people of the cosmos. It's a perfectly lovely morning in August, here on the Delmarva Peninsula. Temperatures are expected to stay in the seventies and there's a ver...

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  Good Saturday morning, good people of the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer (I can hear Nat King Cole's voice as I write those words, can't you?). I have chosen to make this a lazy day, ...

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THE ORDINATION OF THE PHILADELPHIA ELEVEN - JULY 29, 1974 Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia, PA   A Sermon Preached for Pentecost IX PROPER 12 A - TRACK I St. Philip's Episcopal Ch...

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  It wasn’t until I got to the graveside that I finally cried. Lois has been gone for almost 3 years but I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye because of COVID. Sheri has been gone for a...

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  ST. PHILLIP'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Laurel, Delaware Pentecost VI - Proper 7 - Year A June 25, 2023   Did you hear what Jesus just said?  “DO NOT THINK THAT I HAVE COME TO BRING PEAC...

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   ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Pentecost II - Proper V June 11, 2023   “As Jesus was walking along . . . .” So begins our gospel lesson today, which sounds so casual, so nonchala...

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