Preached on the occasion of the Blessing of the Mugs and the church’s revocation of the use of paper cups.
Who can tell me what the word “kosher” means? What does it mean to eat kosher”?
(Judaism: traditional law-code of proper ritual slaughter, proper separation of meat and milk, proper tithing of fruit)
After graduating from seminary, I interviewed for a job as pastor of a tiny parish in very rural Maine. Following the interview, a couple of the parishioners took me on a tour of the village.
They pointed out the Grange Hall, Charlie Merrill’s cows, the Grover’s lumber mill, Clyde Millet’s oxen (which he trained for the fair) and the one-room cabin they had found for me to live in.
A Noble Inheritance, a sermon preached by Nancy S. Taylor
Based on Revelation 19.11-16
I have a hard word today.
There is reason to despair. Reason to adopt nihilism, or extreme cynicism. Reason to scorn.
Reason to believe it’s all meaningless, that there is no purpose to it all.
Based on Acts 2. 42-46
Handsel, a sermon by Nancy S. Taylor, Senior Minister, Based on Genesis 23: 1-20
Preached on the Sunday of the dedication and consecration of the Robert C. & Coley K. Elder Memorial Columbarium
Handsel, archaic. A gift given at the beginning or to mark an acquisition or the start of an enterprise, supposedly to bring good luck.
Based on selected biblical texts on the role of women (Galatians 3.26-29, I Timothy 2.11-12, I Corinthians 14.33-35, Romans 16.1-5, John 4.23)