Sermons

A couple weeks ago the lectionary had us in 1 Corinthians and I leaned on a three-year-old commentary of New Testament professor Valerie Nicolet, who, among other great things, is studying queer theory at the Institute of Protestant Theology in Paris. I didn’t say it in French before and I won’t now, but what I … read

Let’s pray. God, though sometimes overbearing, Paul also wrote that the Spirit intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. All our sighing and all our crying and four-letter words are prayers. And so, we ask that those meditations and the words I speak now be life giving, as we try to figure out … read

It’s important to note that before this lectionary text, often called the Song of Moses and Miriam, we meet Miriam in Exodus 2. She, along with Moses’ mother and some revolutionary midwives, saves Moses from certain death, as Pharoah has ordered that all baby boys be thrown into the Nile River. Listen with me for … read