The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. You don’t have to be in church or synagogue every Sunday to know those words. Even the least religious of the Jewish and Christian people who share the book of Psalms knows those words. Whenever there is pain, whether the loss of someone we know personally […]
Note: this is not my own sermon, by one written by my wife, Heidi Carrington Heath. Heidi is a seminarian under care of Old South Church in Boston, the church located at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The first worship service of that congregation was this Thursday night. Due to the fact the […]
Today I am praying for my Muslim friends and extended family. Because I know they are afraid. We don’t have any official confirmation yet whether or not the two brothers who are reported to have been the Boston Marathon bombers are Muslim. There are many reports, though, and already anti-Muslim statements are being made. It […]
I often park on the finish line of the Boston Marathon. 364 days a year it’s just a paint-worn line on the pavement on Boylston Street. It’s right in front of Old South Church, my wife’s home congregation, and I sometimes joke that it is the closest I will ever get to crossing the finish […]
A couple of weeks ago, right before Easter, we shared the stories of Holy Week. And one that we read was the story of Peter, one of Jesus’s disciples. We read about how on the night of the Last Supper, Jesus told his disciples that they were all going to leave him before the night […]
When I first became a church-goer, 19 years ago now, I walked into church and felt like I was in another country. One where I didn’t speak the language. Between the words and the rituals and the traditions that everyone else seemed to know, I felt lost. And, to be honest, I felt embarrassed. Today […]
Last Sunday most of you were here for Easter. We had an uplifting service celebrating faith in Christ and in the resurrection. We read together the story of how Christ rose again, and appeared to those he love, and how the message that God’s love still lived began to spread. It’s hard to leave church […]
