SERMONS

Life Lived in Lights, Shadows and Darkness​​ – Sermon Preached at Duke Chapel

Life Lived in Lights, Shadows and Darkness​​ – Sermon Preached at Duke Chapel

Sermon: Life Lived in Lights, Shadows and Darkness​​ Duke Chapel February 11, 2018 The video of the whole service is here: https://chapel.duke.edu/events/university-worship-1518364800-1518368400   Biblical readings   Mark 9:2-9 9:2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 9:3 and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. 9:4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 9:5 Then Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to…

The abyss – Homily preached at hispanic Summer Program 2017

The abyss – Homily preached at hispanic Summer Program 2017

“The abyss doesn’t divide us. The abyss surrounds us.” – says wislawa szymborska from Poland in her poem autotomy :: wislawa szymborska In danger, the holothurian cuts itself in two. It abandons one self to a hungry world and with the other self it flees. It violently divides into doom and salvation, retribution and reward, what has been and what will be. An abyss appears in the middle of its body between what instantly become two foreign shores. Life on one shore, death on the other. Here hope and there despair. If there are scales, the pans don’t move. If there is…

Latinxs Spirit – Hispanic Summer Program 2017

Latinxs Spirit – Hispanic Summer Program 2017

Monday Sermon – Latinxs Spirit / Hispanic Summer Program 2017 John 14:15-18 15 ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees her nor knows it. You know it, because The Spirit abides with you, and will be in you. 18 ‘I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.         El Spirito eres Latino! Yes, The Spirit is Latina! Por supuesto, the Holy Spirt…

Sermon – On Oscar Romero: Between Life and Death – What to do?

Sermon – On Oscar Romero: Between Life and Death – What to do?

This sermon was preached at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC on March 28, 2017. Sermon – On Oscar Romero: Between Life and Death – What to do? Texts – Ezekiel 37:1-14 / John 11:1-45 – Texts after the sermon May the peace of Christ be with you. I am so grateful to be here. It’s truly an honor to be with you all at this wonderful seminary! I want to thank Professor Debora Sokolove for the first invitation. My gratitude to Dean Robert Martin, Doctors Lucy Lind Hogan, Debora Sokolove and Veronice Miles for a wonderful dinner last night. To president David…

Sermon: Owning our Taboos, Academy of Homiletics 2016

Sermon: Owning our Taboos, Academy of Homiletics 2016

Sermon: Owning our Taboos Biblical Text: Luke 21: 1-4 Academy of Homiletics, San Antonio  – November 17, 2016   What a gift you all gave to me inviting me to preach today. I am most grateful! I want to thank my sister Margaret Moers Wenig for the first invitation and for my brother Wes Allen and my sister Lucy Lin Hogan for giving me this oopportunity.   Our theme this year is fascinating, one that gives us so much to ponder about.  As we saw yesterday, this bold theme can be very helpful for our current time after the disaster…