Sports teams are larger than we sometimes realize; they include more than the number of players suited up to play, more than the number of players who are physically in the game. The men’s basketball coach at Duke, Coach K, calls the crowd “the sixth man” or the sixth player. The energy from the crowd […]
Loving Your Neighbor As Yourself
A sermon on Luke 18:9-14 given by Teri Daily on October 27, 2019… There is a story told by an anthropologist about a game he played with children when he was in Africa. He put a basket of fruit under a tree. Then he gathered the children some distance away and told them that whoever […]
Living What We Already Know
The theme woven through all of today’s readings is obvious – wealth inequality, or the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. It’s a topic with which most of us are familiar. The 400 richest Americans now have more wealth than the bottom 150 million adults in the U.S. – in other words, […]
Being Broken, Gathered, and Remade: The Work of the Holy Spirit in Us
A sermon on Acts 2:1-21 and John 14:8-17, 25-27… A sermon on Acts 2:1-21 and John 14:8-17, 25-27… Click here for audio. “Paradoxically, we trust God not because God, as the good, guarantees our own experiential process, that is, preserves the good we have already attained, but rather precisely because, quite in contrast to all […]