Sermons from June 2015

St. Cyril’s Day (Proper 8)– June 28, 2015 Mark 5:21-43 Indian wisdom says our lives are rivers. We are born somewhere small and quiet and we move toward a place we cannot see, but only imagine. Along our journey, people and events flow into us, and we are created of everywhere and everyone we have passed. Each event, each person, changes us in some way. Even in times of drought we are still moving and growing, but it is during…

3 Pentecost, Proper 6 – June 14, 2015 Mark 4:26-34 Almost 80 years ago, in 1936, a sociologist named Robert Merton developed a theory about “unintended consequences of deliberate acts.” He was studying the behavior of people who were trying to cause positive social change. He looked at people who had very good intentions and who spent a great deal of time studying ways to improve important services like education, childcare and health standards. Even though they planned carefully how…

2 Pentecost, Proper 5 – June 7, 2015 Mark 3:20-35 “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer,” said Sun Tzu, the Chinese general and military strategist who lived six centuries before Christ. “It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls,” said the ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes. “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends,” said the 19th–century Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde. A quick Google search…