Love Like Lightning
For only kindness can win the world for kindness, only generosity can win the world for generosity, and only love like lightning can win the world for love.
Sermon: Easter Vigil
The Good Friday Cry of Victory
The Rev. Brandon C. Ashcraft Good Friday, Year B / John 18:1—19:42. April 18, 2025 Trinity Church in the City of Boston The Good Friday Cry of Victory Two hundred […]
Sermon: Maundy Thursday
Do You Love Jesus
Palm Sunday Michael Battle Trinity Church Boston April 13, 2025 Lectionary: Philippians 2:5-11; Luke 19:28-40; and Luke 22:14-23:56 When my mother was living, I had an epiphany. This may come […]
Life is Short
During these waning days of Lent, with only scattered palms ahead of us, we can deny the accusation of our insignificance: by pouring out our love. No matter how much the world tells us that we are wasting our energy and our resources and our God-given potential. But we pour it out, over each imperfect human. Towards our savior, Jesus. Abundantly offered to God not as a sacrifice, friends, but as revolutionary declaration.
Heirs Of Blessing
See what the eldest son fails to recognize: we always tend the fatted calf for our brother’s return. We receive strengths of spirit and nurture them in order that they might benefit all people.
The Very Rev. Dr. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge
Although fear of divine punishment may no longer motivate us today, to turn around, to repent, to say “I’m sorry”, to make amends, to reorient ourselves toward loving God and loving our neighbor… Scriptural memory can encourage us and nourish us.
Turning Toward Our True Mother
How remarkable that the almighty Son of God eschews the regal image of the lion, or the mighty image of the ox, and chooses instead the nurturing image of a mother hen. To anyone who complains that maternal imagery for the divine is a new-fangled innovation, I present the ancient words of today’s Gospel.
Jesus, Indiana Jones, And All Of Us
By Jesus’ model, when the world turns to selfishness and judgment, we do not overcome those trials by returning aggression for aggression; we do not give cruelty for cruelty.