Sermon 15 Pentecost—Proper 20-A September 21, 2014 William Bradbury Exodus 16:2-15 Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45 Philippians 1:21-30 Matthew 20:1-16 I was watching Ken Burns new multi-part film called “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History” when he was showing the horror of the Great Depression: 30% unemployment. Bread and soup...
Sermon 14 Pentecost—Proper 19-A September 14, 2014 William Bradbury Exodus 14:19-31 Psalm 114 Romans 14:1-12 Matthew 18:21-35 Every Sunday we say in the Creed: We believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and then, in the Lord’s Prayer, we say “forgive us our sins as we...
Friends, Last Saturday a great crowd of Episcopalians gathered at the Agganis Center at Boston University to witness and celebrate the consecration of Alan McIntosh Gates as the 16th Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts. All Saints’ Choir, led by Maggie Marshall, joined the 640-strong mass choir to lead the...
Sermon 13 Pentecost—Proper 18-A September 7, 2014 William Bradbury Exodus 12:1-14 Psalm 149 Romans 13:8-14 Matthew 18:15-20 Jesus said, “If another member of the church sins against you…” Two weeks ago we looked at the image of the church as living stones built up and held together...
Friends, On September 4th our lectionary remembers Paul Jones, Bishop and Peace Advocate, who in 1918 was forced to resign as Bishop of Utah because of his pacifism in the midst of World War I. Today most people recognize that war was a disaster in which 16 million died to...
Sermon 11 Pentecost—Proper 16-A August 24, 2014 William Bradbury Exodus 1:8-2:10 Psalm 124 Romans 12:1-8 Matthew 16:13-20 Richard Rohr says that one of his staff members at the Center for Action and Contemplation has a neighbor in south Albuquerque, who is a devout Catholic: this neighbor attends Mass...
Dear Friends in Christ, During my retreat in July at Emery House, which is run by the monks of SSJE, the religious order to which our bishop belongs, I took two afternoon walks in the neighboring Maudslay State Park, which comprises 450 acres overlooking the Merrimack River as it runs...
Sermon 10 Pentecost—Proper 15—A August 17, 2014 William Bradbury Genesis 45:1-15 Psalm 133 Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32 Matthew 15:10-28 There’s been a lot of fierceness in the news this week: We’ve seen the fierceness of hate: ISIS fighters driving Yazidis out of their homes and into the mountains of northern...
Sermon 8 Pentecost—Proper 13-A August 3, 2014 William Bradbury Genesis 32:22-31 Psalm 17:1-7, 16 Romans 9:1-5 Matthew 14:13-21 A wild friend of mine who is a recently minted Quaker pastor is getting married in a couple of weeks to a woman from Texas who is an opera singer in...
Sermon 7 Pentecost—Proper 12-A July 27, 2014 William Bradbury Genesis Psalm Romans 8: 26-39 Matthew 13: 31-33, 44-52 “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all...
