January 1, 2014 ‘cloudy with a sense of rain’ Gospel: “With the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.” Ignatius was writing in one of his Big Chief tablets. After a period in which the western world had enjoyed order, tranquility, unity, and oneness with its True…
Category: Sermons
New Year’s Day Sermon 2013
Seven + Seven Sermon
July 17, 2011 ‘scattered showers’ Gospel: By Joe Campbell a studier of mythology “But then comes this discovery of the great cycles of the heavens, and what you find is a great concern to relate the whole organization of the society to this cycling–a tremendous accent on seasonal festivals. These festivals are not meant to…
Sermon of the Showers
July 24, 2011 ‘a slow, wet Sunday’ Gospel: From “Ethica Nicomachea” by Aristotle A thinking Greek for the end at which boxers aim is pleasant — the crown and the honours — but the blows they take are distressing to flesh and blood, and painful, and so is their whole exertion; and because the blows…
Slow Sunday Sermon
July 10, 2011 (hotter than it feels) By Aristotle a Greek philosopher and tutor to Alexander. From Ethica Nicomachea Gospel: AFTER what we have said, a discussion of friendship would naturally follow, since it is a virtue or implies virtue, and is besides most necessary with a view to living. For without friends no one…
Sermon of the Afternoon Rain
June 5, 2011 ‘a drizzling, periodic rain’ Gospel: By T.S. Elliot a career writer and poet When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man’s experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary;…in the mind of the poet…experiences are always forming new wholes… Sermon: All the pieces matter….
Afternoon Sermon
Afternoon Sermon May 23, 2011 (humid still, though less so) Gospel: By Edwin Arlington Robinson a poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean-favoured and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he…
Sermon for the Sun
May 7, 2011 ‘partly cloudy, medium temps with swampiness’ Gospel: ‘Ah Sunflower’ by William Blake An English Poet + Illustrator Written in 1794 Ah! sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller’s journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And…
sermon for the sun
May 7, 2011 ‘partly cloudy, medium temps with swampiness’ Gospel: ‘Ah Sunflower’ by William Blake An English Poet + Illustrator Written in 1794 Ah! sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller’s journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And…
Good Friday Sermon
Good Friday Sermon April 22, 2011 “a hot, swampy vernal day” * Reuban’s favorite sermon Gospel: “A Threat” By poet and machinist Fred Voss From The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry A Threat My fellow workers and I operate machines that cut steel blocks. As the machines cut the steel, my fellow workers like to…