Look up, Look out!
In preparation for my trip to France, my dad suggested we spring for an international plan–just in case we really needed to make a call or use our phones while we were abroad–it’d be better to pay a...
View ArticleProphet Daniel & the Leather Oxfords – a sermon.
In May, I was in NYC for my brother’s graduation from college, and while I was there, I wanted to find the right kind of walking shoe for the summer. I started looking through shoe stores in SoHo for...
View ArticleAnd again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like The Devil Wears Prada.
A sixth parable: In the movie The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep depicts fashion mogul and long-time Vogue editor Anna Wintour–though her character has a different name in the film, of course (the...
View ArticleDrugs and the Power of Darkness
Emily:A message of hope in the darkness, offered articulately by my colleague the Rev. Canon Dane Boston. Originally posted on That Blessed Dependancy: “For this cause we also, since the day we heard...
View Article#Magnificat, #Ferguson, and the #Savior
“My soul magnifies the Lord.” (Luke 1:46) Jonathan Myrick Daniels (whose life and sacrifice are remembered on August 13 in the Episcopal Church’s calendar) jumped in front of a shotgun’s discharge to...
View Articlewhy bother with church? – exhortation to worship leaders
“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. For everything in heaven and on earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom, and you are exalted as head over...
View ArticleGuest Post: Take Off Your Shoes, Take Up The Cross
Emily:shared this sermon with the 7:30am crowd this morning. I said to myself, “If we still read John Chrysostom out during sermon-time, I can surely read Kara Slade during sermon-time!” Best words on...
View ArticleNo Résumé Required
Originally posted on That Blessed Dependancy: A Sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, October 5, 2014 Preached by the Rev’d Canon Dane E. Boston, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia,...
View ArticleWhere are you? Come out!
a sermon on Matthew 22:1-14 At the beginning of the parable, the passage reads, “they would not come.” Why didn’t they want to go to the banquet? Perhaps, to figure out why someone wouldn’t want to go...
View ArticleGod Doesn’t Need Your Money – sermon
“Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and make good your vows to the Most High.” It almost seems as if I’ve skipped the sermon, doesn’t it? Breezed over the Creed, the Prayers and the Confession,...
View ArticleWhat is Your Name? – All Saints’ Sunday – Trinity Cathedral
Emily:Revisiting a year hence what it means to be named–to be “sealed by the Holy Spirit in Baptism and marked as Christ’s own forever.” Originally posted on hope of things not seen: “22 ‘Blessed are...
View Article“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
Emily:Remembering our hope; my colleague preached at our All Souls liturgy last week… Originally posted on That Blessed Dependancy: A Sermon Preached at the Requiem for All Souls’ Day, November 2, 2014...
View ArticleWho are you?
Emily:Amazing sermon I heard yesterday: “Who are you?” via colleague Dane Boston Originally posted on That Blessed Dependancy: A Sermon Preached on the Third Sunday of Advent, December 14, 2014 by the...
View ArticleThe Feast of the Holy Innocents – In Remembrance of the Children of Sandy...
Emily:In the wake of Sandy Hook two years ago, I preached this sermon on the Feast of Holy Innocents. In reading it this year, I can’t help but think of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Rafael Ramos,...
View ArticleAll Signs Point to Jesus
Have you seen the new Netflix series, “Marco Polo”? Jordan and I only made it through the first two episodes, but setting the premise of the show–how it is that Marco ends up in Mongolia–required a...
View ArticleJesus is the Answer
Originally posted on That Blessed Dependancy: A Sermon Preached on the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, January 18, 2015 By the Rev’d Canon Dane E. Boston, Trinity Cathedral, Columbia, South Carolina...
View ArticleConfession
There’s a church in Columbia with a sizable staff (I’m not talking about my own church, I promise!) who retreats together at least twice a year. During their first afternoon, before they pray or...
View Article“Get behind me, Satan!”
“Get behind me, Satan!” When was the last time you said this to someone? Have you ever said it, either out loud to someone or in your mind? Maybe we should. What a Lenten discipline that might be–to...
View Articlemay he be numbered with the saints in light
My friends, ours is a God who reveals himself in the face of a man, Jesus Christ, and who helps us understand who he is through stories in Scripture. I stand here today as a witness to the life of...
View ArticleWhat’s Scripture got to do with it?
The Resurrection: In Accordance with The Scriptures (part of a sermons series with the Rev. Canon Dane Boston) This afternoon, in continuing the series begun so brilliantly by my colleague last week as...
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