Truth or Consequences: An All Souls' Day Sermon

Coming Up For Air
A few of you have noted how "silent" I have been of late. Silent, yes, but not inactive. In fact, I would say that the lack of activity on this blog is in inverse proportion to the level of activity in my personal and professional life.On a personal note, I hope you will rejoice with me that the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church has co-opted one more soul. On All Saints' Day, the eighth anniversary of my diaconal ordination, our son, Andrew, was baptized. It was a glorious liturgy, surrounded by parishioners, friends, and family. I am now on paternity leave, more or less (if you don't count the fact that I was back last night to be th

Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Sermon on the Sixth Chapters of Ephesians & John
The following sermon, on Ephesians 6:10-20 & John 6:56-69 , was preached on 23 August 2009 (Year B, 12 Pentecost, Proper 16, RCL) at St. Paul’s Parish, K St. Washington, D.C. by N.J.A. Humphrey.Those of you who have been around here for a while know that one of my big themes is mutual commitment to each other in Christ. My sermon of two weeks ago was all about the reasons for staying connected to this particular community of faith when things get tough. But this raised the question in several peoples’ minds of whether I believed there was anything that ever le