Rabbi Hillel, who died about two decades before Jesus began his ministry, gave this summary regarding the preciousness of life: If I am not for myself, who is for me?If I care only for myself, what am I?If not now, when? There are many applications of the wisdom found in… Continue reading
(based in large part on the exegesis of Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann) In an earlier sermon I shared with you the consensus of Old Testament scholars that these opening chapters of Genesis represent centuries of tradition. We now know that the final form of these chapters crystallized during the… Continue reading
In the previous sermon in this series I shared with you the answer I gave during my teaching career as to whether I believed in evolution. Those asking that question were trying to get me fired, so I was very cagey with my answer. I told them that my only… Continue reading
Before the beginning of recorded history, humankind has enjoyed a special relationship with playful and highly intelligent animals called Dolphins. There are incredible stories regarding their sensitivity to humans in distress at sea. It would appear that we have only just begun to understand the mystery and value of these… Continue reading
We are told by astrophysicists that our universe began with the explosion of something smaller than an atom. A universe that is measured in billions of galaxies (each containing up to at least a billion stars) and trillions of miles should create in us a gigantic sense of awe and… Continue reading
(12 minutes) I don’t think that we will have discovered America until we have some sense of the feelings of the natives that walked over this place. And the people that were the furthest from understanding the sense of the natives that walked over this place were the conquerors of… Continue reading
Once upon a time there was a mother with many children. Like most parents, this mother loved her children and did all she could to provide for, care for, and nurture them. She gave sacrificially of herself year after year. Not all of her children, however, followed her example. Some… Continue reading
