From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, The Very Rev. Dr. Andrew McGowan walked us through the ways clothing—or the lack of it—plays a role in Christ’s story: garments thrown before him on his entry into Jerusalem, the towel with which he served his disciples, the robe used to mock him during his trial, and finally, […]
Sermon Topic: Holy Week
The Paradox of the Cross
From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, The Very Rev. Dr. Andrew McGowan walks us through the ways clothing—or the lack of it—plays a role in Christ’s story: garments thrown before him on his entry into Jerusalem, the towel with which he served his disciples, the robe used to mock him during his trial, and finally, […]
The Act of Washing
From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, The Very Rev. Dr. Andrew McGowan walks us through the ways clothing—or the lack of it—plays a role in Christ’s story: garments thrown before him on his entry into Jerusalem, the towel with which he served his disciples, the robe used to mock him during his trial, and finally, […]
The Light That Betrays
From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, The Very Rev. Dr. Andrew McGowan walks us through the ways clothing—or the lack of it—plays a role in Christ’s story: garments thrown before him on his entry into Jerusalem, the towel with which he served his disciples, the robe used to mock him during his trial, and finally, […]
The Instruments of Passion
In this powerful sermon on the Monday of Holy Week, The Very Rev. Andrew McGowan explores the story of Judas’ betrayal through the lens of money and moral choice.
Throwing Everything We Have
From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, The Very Rev. Dr. Andrew McGowan walks us through the ways clothing—or the lack of it—plays a role in Christ’s story: garments thrown before him on his entry into Jerusalem, the towel with which he served his disciples, the robe used to mock him during his trial, and finally, […]
The eternal freshness of the wounds of love.
“There are no victories in human history without their element of tragedy. Victory in human affairs always means that someone has lost. And this usually means that life or welfare, hope or security has been lost.” [1] Words of Rowan Williams, when Archbishop of Canterbury, on visiting Nagasaki and commemorating the victims of the atomic bomb […]
Jesus – ‘the fullness of him who fills all in all.’
(Ephesians 1:23b)
Michael Ramsey, 100th Archbishop of Canterbury, used to teach that there is a natural order of things in creation; if you will, the order that things are meant to be. He expressed this as God – Man – Things. However, this became disordered with God moved to the bottom of the natural order and, even […]
Slaying the Ram of Human Pride
Good Friday. The climax of Jesus’ Passion and the bleeding heart of the story of God. A day of dark deeds and, in Jesus’ crucifixion, a momentary triumph of the world’s ways over God’s. A momentary triumph. And the consequences of that triumph? Two thousand-odd years of the misuse of power, anti-semitism and villainous deeds […]
Love in the Ordinary
…my soul lay out of sight, Untuned, unstrung; My feeble spirit, unable to look right, Like a nipped blossom, hung Discontented.[i] And discontented we will remain, like George Herbert’s nipped blossom, until we can wrestle to the ground this week that fickleness within us. It’s a bothersome force, fickleness, pulling us between those other two […]
