Category: Homilies
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Practicing Christianity
How does one get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. If you said 57th & 7th, you would be right. But it won’t be the answer I was looking for. One definition of practice: to perform or work at repeatedly so as to become proficient, so as to become perfect. … Some people are better […]
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Everything is Going to be All Right
A young child is exploring the world around her. She had just began to walk on her own, still unsteady on her feet. The colorful and shiny objects strewn across the living room floor delight her. As she bends to pick up the last thing that captures her attention, she wobbles, and lands on her […]
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Be Holy … or Blind & Toothless
Lex Talionis – the Law of Retaliation. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, an arm for an arm, a life for a life. “The earliest human legal systems were almost universally forms of Lex Talionis, a law of equal and direct retribution.” (Richard Hooker, World Cultures, General Glossary. wsu.edu. 1996.) One […]
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Beyond What the Law Requires
First let me set the record straight. Despite what some of you may think, despite what some of you have been led to believe, I have never claimed to be a model Christian. If you choose to imitate my example, you do so at your own risk. I work at becoming a good Christian everyday […]
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The Other Beatitudes
Like all of you, I have heard the beatitudes many times, and I am sick and tired of hearing it proclaimed. No one ever really pays attention to what it means. We like to hear it, but we seldom seem to make any of it truly matter. Instead, we who claim to be Christians, are […]
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