Katharine Jefferts Schori
St. Martin’s, Charlotte, North Carolina
People of all sorts ask me about how I left oceanography and came into this line of work. I tell them I’m still fishing. Some of them get it. But people have been moving from one kind of fishing to another for a very long time. I don’t think I ever made the connection […]
Diocese of North Carolina Convention
The lections for this sermon were Isaiah 2:2-4 and Luke 10:1-9. Have you noticed that we are pretty much sitting on the high point in this city? I don’t see any very big mountains outside these doors, but I know there are at least small mountains in this diocese. Do people in the Piedmont have mountain […]
St James, Danbury CT – 250th Anniversary
Happy Anniversary – and welcome to a journey into the future. This year of celebration brings an invitation to reflect and give thanks, but it’s not a stopping place. The church is always on a journey toward the reign of God, and that means it’s always changing, because we’re not there yet. We have […]
Installation of Bishop James Magness as Canon for Armed Services and Federal Ministries
The lections for this Evensong were Ps 107:23-32; Micah 4:1-5; Revelation 21:1-7. There is a standing joke about the different kinds of canons, but it only helps a little that they’re spelled differently. The one we’re installing tonight is a person attached to a cathedral. Originally canons were cathedral clergy who lived by a shared […]
All Saints, Birmingham, AL
It hasn’t started getting light any earlier in the morning yet, even though we’re more than two weeks past the winter solstice. The days are getting very slightly longer, but the added seconds are coming at the end of the day, rather than at the beginning. Right before Christmas, I was way up in […]
Epiphany 1, Year B
It hasn’t started getting light any earlier in the morning yet, even though we’re more than two weeks past the winter solstice. The days are getting very slightly longer, but the added seconds are coming at the end of the day, rather than at the beginning. Right before Christmas, I was way up in northern […]
Presiding bishop’s Christmas Eve sermon
Christmas Eve 2011 The people who have walked in darkness have seen a great light. God has increased their joy, for a child has been given, whose authority shall grow continually, and bring endless peace… from this time forth and forevermore1, says Isaiah. The eternal hope and yearning of the human race emerges from darkness […]
Church of the Incarnation, Jersey City, NJ
I rode the subway early yesterday morning, and at one stop a group of young people got on with several bulky suitcases, including a hard cased one that looked like it could hold a big keyboard. One pushed an empty wheelchair, another brought a walker, and one rolled a furniture dolly. One young man […]
Diocese of Missouri Convention Sermon
Well, the Occupy-ers are being thrown out of one park after another. They were evicted from Zuccotti Park near Wall Street Monday night and from Kiener Plaza here last weekend. Oakland tired of them quite a while ago, and London still hasn’t been able to make up its mind about whether to let them […]
Christ Church, Cape Girardeau, MO
Have you met any of the Occupy-ers? That movement fascinates me. It’s been self-organizing from the start, somewhat chaotic, and it has managed to present a fairly coherent message. It’s certainly not all pretty, but at least in local situations, it’s been able to find effective responses to invading interests who want to foment […]