Brent House

Sermon for Brent House Kyle Rader May 30, 2010 Trinity Sunday Texts: Prov. 8:1-4, 22-31; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15 We have this tradition at the Divinity School that for our last Wednesday lunch of the year, we have a barbeque outside, and we book a bluegrass band from downstate to provide music.  So we’re all [...]

The Risk of Love Caroline E. Perry Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C, 2010 John 13:31-35 O God, Take our minds and think through them. Take our lips and speak through them. Take our hearts and set them on fire. Have you ever had a moment when you realized the Bible wasn’t telling you what [...]

In many ways this is what Good Friday is about: being human.

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 [...]

Both the Hebrew Bible and Gospel readings for today feature a transformation—Moses’ face shines because he’s had contact with God, while Jesus’ divine nature is revealed to Peter, James, and John. Both readings, furthermore, focus our attention not just on the transformation itself but in the surrounding community’s reactions to the transformation. In the Hebrew [...]