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Ezekiel 36:24-28
Mark 10:35-45
At Commencement at Harvard University, the minister at the Memorial Church renowned preacher, Peter Gomes, used to tell the graduates this famous bible story:
“As they were being driven out of Eden, and at the east the flaming sword barricaded the tree of life and blocked the way back, Eve turned to Adam and said, ‘My dear, we are entering a time of transition.’”
Amos 5:18-24
Psalm 50:7-15
Matt 18:12-14
I want to talk about Eric Garner.
I want to talk about Michael Brown.
Readings:
Isaiah 52:13–53:12; Psalm 40:1-14; Hebrews 10:1-25; John 18:31-19:37
It’s been a hell of a Lent.
James 2:1-9 Who Is My Neighbor?
“But I was her slave and I suppose she did not recognize me as her neighbor.”
Let us pray. O Holy One, may only your words be spoken, may only your words be heard. Amen.
Amos 7:7-9
Psalm 18:21-36
2 Corinthians 4:5-12
Luke 9:23-26
“If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it.”
Monday, September 30
Feast of St. Michael and All Angels
Zechariah 8:1-8 Reading for the Daily Eucharistic Lectionary
Christ Chapel, Seminary of the Southwest
September 30, 2013: Tomorrow the healthcare marketplace will open, and you can register and choose a plan to insure that your costs will be paid if you get really sick. The system will work if enough healthy people sign up, and their premiums will cover the cost of the people who aren’t healthy and who will have a ton of expenses.
What a wonderful occasion this is, as Cynthia Kittredge is installed as the 8th Dean and President of the Seminary of the Southwest! It is a great privilege and joy for me to be here to celebrate with Cynthia, with her family and friends, and with all of you in this seminary community that Cynthia loves so deeply.
The lectionary imposes the practice and discipline of reading, studying, and usually, preaching on the appointed texts for the day.
Today this is more of a discipline than a practice for me, because our daily eucharistic lectionary has dealt the 1st letter of Paul to Timothy.
1 Timothy is not a favorite of mainstream historical biblical scholars, with their Protestant preference for the undisputed Pauline letters, the Paul of freedom and transformation. “For freedom Christ has set us free.”
The Very Rev. Douglas Travis
Evensong, May 13, 2013
Lections:
Philippians 2:5-13
John 15:12-17
Luke 14:25-33
Eight years ago almost to the day, when I was a new interim theology professor at SSW, I stood in this pulpit and preached my very first sermon in Christ Chapel. It was 2 days after we sent George W Bush back to the White House for 4 more years, and 3 or 4 days after the Lambeth Commission released the Windsor Report, giving a theological and ecclesiastical response to the controversies in the Episcopal Church surrounding human sexuality.
Seminary of the Southwest
September 12, 2012
In our lives Lord, be glorified
In your Church Lord, be glorified
Because It Is True
A Commencement Sermon
The Seminary of the Southwest
May 8, 2012
The Very. Rev. Douglas Travis
Martin Luther King Sunday, January 15, 2012
St. James Episcopal Church, Austin
Genesis 37:17-20
Ephesians 6:10-20
Luke 6:27-36
In the name of Jesucristo. Amen.
"This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!" Now repeat after me and say it like you mean it: "This is the day the Lord has made…. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!" By God, I'll make joyful Christians out of you yet!!
Now I want all of you to turn to Psalm 100 and I want us to say it together and say it like you mean it, with a loud voice and your lungs full of joyful air! Psalm 100
Acts 5:27-33, Psalm 34:15-22, John 3:31-36
… for he gives the Spirit without measure.
Measuring, weighing, analyzing, counting, verifying, certifying, judging…
So many of our common activities require us to figure things out.
We get the picture of day upon day spent in trying to arrive at conclusions that will allow us to live another day.
Of course, living another day seems to be a metaphor to those who are healthy and wealthy.
First Reading: Ephesians 4:1-6
Psalm: Psalm 122
Gospel: John 17:6a,15-23
In the summer of 2001 I accepted the call to become the rector of a parish which had recently undergone a somewhat catastrophic split over the issues of the day. My predecessor, the majority of the vestry, and about 150 members of the parish had left to form a new parish no longer in the Episcopal Church.
A sermon about Bishop John Hines – founder of Seminary of the Southwest – given by the Rev. Kathleen Sams Russell, assistant professor of contextual theology, on John Hines Day (October 1, 2009) in Christ Chapel
This past summer, I made the journey-along with several thousand other people–to that particular expression of our tradition–General Convention which was held in Anaheim, California, the home of Disneyland and down the road from Hollywood.
"Sophia and My Neighbor's Van: A Violent Confrontation," a sermon by Dr. Anthony Baker, assistant professor of Systematic Theology, given on September 17, 2009, in Christ Chapel
A Brief Explanatory Prologue
On the occasion of John Hines Day and the anniversary of his 100th Birthday
Christ Chapel– Seminary of the Southwest
Micah Jackson, John Hines Assistant Professor of Preaching
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