Category Archives: sermon

Holy Comforter

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Do not be alarmed by her unpredictability. She knows what she is doing. She speaks your language. She knows your name. Continue reading →

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Good

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Brooding over the nascent creation; the divine nesting instinct restrained, barely distressing the surface, featherlight, lest its exquisite potential be crushed by the weight of glory.

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Statuesque

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

A sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, 2017 “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them … Continue reading →

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Truth, lies, and email scams

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

The words we use to try to remake the world in our own interest and our own image cannot replace that creative Word of God, which writes truth on the heart and directs all of life towards its loving mercy. Continue reading →

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Gateway Jesus

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

The readings are for “Good Shepherd Sunday,” fourth of Easter, 2017 I have some sympathy with Jesus’ original audience, who heard him speak of sheep and shepherds, gates and gatekeepers, and wondered what he might mean. So he tries to … Continue reading →

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Cleopas and Fred on the road back from Chicago

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Encountering Cleopas and Fred on the road back from Chicago this week, I feel as though their message to me is not to be afraid to continue to risk the truth. Continue reading →

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Suffer the children 

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

And will their dry bones live? Continue reading →

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It is not enough

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

It is not enough for him to die. It is not enough for him to offer up his pain, to offer us his wincing scars: touch my hand; my open, scored side; trace the welts and weals of the thorns … Continue reading →

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Resurrection

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

In Jesus’ day, around one in five Jewish women bore the name of Mary, so it is not that much of a coincidence that the two women named returning to Jesus’ tomb on Easter morning share the same name. Continue reading →

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Good Friday: his own people

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

At the beginning of the Gospel according to John, we read that, He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and … Continue reading →

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