We’ve seen many pictures of the archangel holding a balance. This is a depiction of something going on in us. We start using such a scale the moment we awaken in the morning. Can I indulge in a few more minutes of sleep? Pros in one pan, cons in the other. Oatmeal or toast for breakfast? Pros and […]
Marriage Address for Rev. Peter Skaller and Phylis Skaller on their Golden Wedding~ by Rev. Susan Locey Fifty years is a long time in today’s world! Yet you have traveled an even longer path together, all the way from the moon. When you first met in New York City those many years ago, something […]
Eulogy for Ralph Anthony Johnson by Rev. Jonah Evans. Given on August 19th in Spring Valley, NY. Ralph Anthony Johnson lived and died for love. His life journey led him to the profound mysteries of how it is that within this world of suffering and emptiness, loss and rejection – how it is that the human soul can find the source of love. […]
We all know that everything in this world receives it’s life from the sun- everything comes from the sun. And people of faith also know that everything we have, everything we are comes from God- everything is given by God. And yet, in our gospel this week (Lk 17), Christ tells the Samaritan leper that it is his faith […]
Having been ill and getting better, healing, is a process. A process that requires time and active effort. In the case of a cold or flu this might happen relatively quickly. But with a more serious illness comes a greater effort. Taking care of oneself, looking for a cure, going through treatment, maybe even having to look for […]
Oh Christ! May our hearts learn to feel your presence. May our heads learn to think your living thoughts. May our limbs learn to serve your aims. Stay close to us. Live in us. For we know that without you, our efforts bear no fruit. We know that without you, all of our knowledge and wisdom […]
Contemplation inspired by Matthew 7:1-14 August 4, 2019 To hear this Gospel with the weight of Christ’s word: “Judge not lest ye be judged,” may trouble us deeply. We can hardly live without judging—after all, every noun we utter is fundamentally a judgment. We identify all the time what is in our world; that is a […]
Where do the Gospels come from? This may seem to be a strange question, but if we answer it “from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,” and some apocryphal gospels by Thomas and others—then we still have not answered or realised how they could have written these accounts of events that they had not personally witnessed. […]
The Weekly Word Sermon July 21st, Gospel reading Matthew 11: 2-15 Today is the last Sunday of celebrating John the Baptist this year. The compelling presence of John lingers in his mysterious call to change our heart and mind, change our consciousness. Nearly 2000 years have passed, but the urgency resonates as much today as […]
The meeting of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth was a turning point for both of them. They came together where the Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea, at the lowest place on the continent, over 400 meters below sea level, where the atmospheric pressure is intense—even metamorphic! John had called out in […]
