Brent House

Ash Wednesday Sermon Barnaby Riedel Just before dinner, after she served him his nightly cocktail, the writer Joan Didion’s husband of forty years suffered a massive heart failure and died. Having returned from the hospital just two hours later she penned the lines that would open her memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking: Life changes [...]

This is an article written by Stacy from December’s Broadcast, a monthly e-zine published by the Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministries.  The rest of the e-zine (worth a read) can be found here. Evangelism: More Questions than Answers. That’s the Point. Over the past few months, I’ve been having many conversations about faith [...]

Highlights of the Past Year 2008–2009: Note that photos, text and audio of several of these events and activities can be found on the Reflections page of our site. At Brent House: Renewed Mission and Vision statements (near-final drafts, which echo the Diocesan vision, “Form the faithful, grow the church, change the world.”): Brent House’s [...]

Stacy Alan Sermon preached on November 29, 2009, Advent 1 at St. Paul and the Redeemer That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane . . . It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of [...]

Sermon preached by Stacy Alan at Bond Chapel, October 28, 2009 Texts:  Luke 9 and 11 I was intrigued to learn that these two texts, which I’ve rarely seen engaged together, are not read in the lectionary cycle.  Congregations who use the lectionary will not be confronted by these two statements in the same year:  [...]