Mother Emanuel
(Photo by Spencer Means) A prayer based on For Healing from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals for Charleston, SC and Mother Emanuel AME Church. God — We ask for mercy. We plead for peace....
View ArticleThe Resurrected Shepherd
I delivered this sermon on my last Sunday at First Baptist Church in Henderson, NC where I was the pastoral intern earlier this year. The sermon came in the midst of a time where we were talking about,...
View ArticleSeeing Peace Lesson
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be updating the blog, which is also a resource for other clergy or religious leaders, with resources I’ve created in the past year or so. Most of these were developed in...
View ArticlePrayer in the Midst of Illness
Here’s a prayer written for those in the midst of illness. God of all Creation, We ask you to come into this place And be present with us. We can ask because we know you come. We know you come because...
View ArticleListening for Different Voices Lesson Template
JESUS MAFA is a response to the New Testament readings from the Lectionary by a Christian community in Cameroon, Africa. Each of the readings were selected and adapted to dramatic interpretation by the...
View ArticleBad News
A Coptic icon of John the Baptist [[This sermon was given at Union Grove United Methodist Church, where I am currently serving as a pastoral intern. It was the Third Sunday of Advent.]] Surely God is...
View ArticleAn Epiphany Story
Le Breton, Jacques ; Gaudin, Jean. Adoration of the Kings, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN....
View ArticleWhat God Expects
I haven’t updated this blog in a while with sermons, though I’ve given plenty. I thought I’d start uploading the one’s I thought were worth reading, beginning with the one from this past Sunday. Below...
View ArticleConfessing Racism
This isn’t just about other people. This is about you and me. Unless you have the gospel courage to name your sin and repent of it, people will keep dying.
View ArticleThe Meals of Scripture (a curriculum preparing for Thanksgiving)
I designed a curriculum that focuses on three meals in Scripture as a way of beginning to engage a theological and politics of food from a Christian perspective.
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