Homilies

October 2, 2021

Homily: The Only Sort of Love God Is

It’s unlikely you’ve heard of John Beukels, the charismatic Anabaptist leader of the German city of Münster in the 1530s, from the early years of the Reformation.
September 24, 2021

Homily: What We Do With Truth

There’s a story by the great Lebanese writer, Kahlil Gibran, called “John the Madman.”
September 18, 2021

Homily: That Wilder Christianity We Want

My first instinct is to blame lawyers, but I know it’s not all their fault.
September 12, 2021

Homily: Where We Often Don’t Believe Jesus

I’m not sure how many of us are on board with what Jesus just said here, unsure how many understand him or like what he said. I don’t really know where I stand either; I think I understand what he’s saying, it’s just I don’t think I’ve fully accepted it. Really, once you strip away all […]
September 5, 2021

Homily: What Makes Hope Real

He was an unlikely president, a playwright and political dissident: Václav Havel, president of Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s, just after the fall of Communism.
August 28, 2021

Homily: Don’t Lose Hope In Anything

It’s an image which has always haunted me, the first image of John Bunyan’s classic work, The Pilgrim’s Progress; haunting, as I said, but also strangely comforting.