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What is truth? That question, amazingly enough, is asked by Pontius Pilate when Jesus is on trial before him (John 18:38). What is truth for me at this time and in this place? Is truth only something that can be factually proved? Is truth something that I must be able to touch or feel or smell or see or hear? Truth is something, I believe that can transcend scientifically proved facts or our senses.

Recently during an interview, background noise interfered ...

Does anyone know what this is?[1] How about this? That’s right: An avocado seed taken from the center of an avocado.

When I was little, growing up in Los Angeles, my aunt and uncle had an avocado tree in their backyard. When avocados were in season, we would pick them and make guacamole. Yum! But rather than throwing out the seed, we put toothpicks in the seed, put it on top of a glass of water and then watched it ...

We have laughed before about those words a priest hates to hear: “But, we’ve always done it this way.” Well, I have a new one for you today: It’s called “the let’s go back to Egypt Committee”[1] – whose focus is on what was the “golden age” – doesn’t matter if we disagree on whether it was 1950 or 1960 or 1970. The point is the focus of those on this committee is on the past and not ...

The Rev. Linda Johnson and two of the IU Episcopal Campus Ministries Peer Ministers visited with St. Andrew’s on Sunday, March 11th. They shared their vision around campus ministry, including a video that one of the students created. The sermon asked us to consider whether we believe in God’s fidelity to us and what that means in terms of our fidelity to God.

Then Jesus began to teach his disciples that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but ...

First Sunday in Lent                                                                                                                        February 26, 2012

Genesis 9: 8-17; Psalm 25: 1-9; 13: 18-22; Mark 1: 9-15

Last Sunday Bishop Waynick reminded us that the leitourgia of the Holy Trinity begins not with the resurrection but much, much earlier. The incarnation is a point at which the Holy Trinity divided itself with Jesus taking on human flesh to bring the good news to us in a form that we might better understand.

This week’s reading from Genesis reminds us that God has ...