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Death – what’s to worry about?
In 1927, an S-4 Navy submarine was accidentally rammed by a Coast Guard Cutter, sending it immediately to the bottom of the bay. The entire crew was trapped.
Epitaphs of Life
I don’t know about you but every day I am amazed at the creativity of human beings - even at the time of death.
The Importance of Thanksgiving (Year Round!)
When Billy Walsh was a youngster, his family lived near Mrs. Smithson. A widow eighty years of age, Mrs. Smithson was in constant pain and crippled by rheumatoid arthritis that ravaged her body.
Dark Nights of the Soul
Let me begin by sharing with you the gospel according to Peanuts: Snoopy longs to be a writer. Snoopy begins every story he writes with those familiar words, "It was a dark and stormy night."
How do you spell relief?
I don’t know why but I was drawn to these words and what we do here today in Sell Chapel with Holy Communion: Life sometimes gets heavy for each of us and I was truly drawn to these words.
Sports, Christianity, and Metaphors for the Soul
Don’t tell me God doesn’t speak to us in different ways. But let me start as I usually do by trying to put a smile on our face.
Of Death and Heaven
The torches burned long into the night in the banquet hall. Their flickering light cast grotesque shadows across the huge table.
Back to Bethany
The passage we will be walking through today is the Gospel lesson from Saint John. This passage is traditionally known as “Jesus’ anointing at Bethany.”
