In integrative and holistic approach to your spirituality and daily habits.

A sermon for the first Sunday after Easter.

Session #2 of a new members/confirmation class.

Here are the links to the sites I referenced:

Book of Common Prayer

https://www.bcponline.org

Mission St Clare

https://www.missionstclare.com

Daily Lectionary

https://www.satucket.com/lectionary/

Herod is alive and well today, unfortunately. What are we going to do about it?

And all of God’s people said “Ba humbug!”

A reflection on the creeds and their relationship to liturgical time and mystical experience.

A sermon about Mother Mary, one of the most radical human beings who has ever existed.

The fourth episode in this series.

A sermon for Advent 3, 2021.

The third episode of this series.

A sermon for Advent II, 2021

Taking a look at what the eucharist really means and its mystical implications.

A sermon reflecting on the new fundamentalism that is taking over our country, and what our response should be in light of Advent.

Session 1 of a new members/confirmation class.

In this new series, Fr TJ is going to unpack the mystical components to the various parts of the traditional Episcopalian (and Western) liturgy.

A reflection on one of Jesus’s most difficult teachings.

A reflection for that feast day.

Better is one day of sheer rage toward God than a thousand mountaintop mystical experiences. For ‘a soul untried by sorrow is good for nothing.’

Sure, you may be able to leave your bad religion behind, but it does not mean that the underlying impulse at the heart of bad religion has left you.

A homily delivered at my friend Dave’s ordination. Congrats to Dave!!!!

‘Dear Jesus, I am glad that I am not judgmental like other judgmental Christians. I am so thankful that I am not like those people who are thankful that they are not like other people. Amen.’

A funeral sermon.

A reflection on Jesus’ interaction with the rich man.

Another sermon during this season where the focus is on creation care. ‘The human being of the future will be a mystic or she will not exist at all.’

A sermon for the second Sunday after the Epiphany.

Confronting the dogmas that we Episcopalians have been indoctrinated into whenever it comes to creation care and the climate crises.

A sermon kicking off a season where we in the Episcopal Church are focusing on creation care. A snippet: “You cannot worship Christ on the altar if you do not pity the suffering Christ in melting glaciers, in endangered animals, in parched lands, in polluted oceans, and in forests that have been reduced to ash.”

With such epic one-liners as ‘The greater the gratefulness, the greater the joy,’ and ‘Physics? Who has time for that crap?’, and ‘It is not that Paul doesn’t want to get you drunk,’ who wouldn’t want to give this podcast a listen?

‘If I dwell in my anger I impair the Holy Spirit’s capacity to dwell in me.’

Beer, chiropractors, faith, baseball, subpar parables, the state of Missoura…this sermon has it all. Enjoy.

‘Religion IS supreme thankfulness, or gratitude.’ -Thomas Aquinas

How do you react to interruptions, to being inconvenienced? Yeah, that pretty much will tell you how much you have let Jesus heal you.

A guy in a collar opines about a controversy in the Church of England, which leads to more opining about evangelism in general.

“The Eucharist is the most special thing in the universe precisely because it is not any more special than anything else.”

A sermon on Jesus’s parables in Mark 4:26-34

A cultural critique coupled with a reflection from the 1st Sunday of Advent.

The passage: 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13.

What Is ‘blasphemy of the Holy Spirit,’ the ‘eternal sin?’

Trinity: were the Church Fathers trying to stump us with a bad math equation, or were they inviting us into the mystery of nonduality?

A weird story about tongues of fire that don’t burn people and an old man with the superpower of fiery hands.

A homily about the dangers of solo spirituality.

Reflexting on the Church’s relationship to the LGBTQ+ community.

A homily delivered on May 2, 2021

Love. The ballet. Steve Perry. Easter Chocolate. Jesus playing a guitar solo. Apparently, this homily has it all.

Reflections on forgiveness and what might possibly be one of the most terrifying passages in the Bible.

This homily has it all: Easter pageants, Anthony Bourdain, Liberace, Sequins, the Great State of ‘Missoura’, and Jesus. He is risen!!!!

The cross through which you meditate on God’s pain is the same cross through which God meditates on yours.

Also know as ‘One Anothering 2.0’.

Because radically countercultural messages deserve to be updated and proclaimed twice.

A homily delivered at the DeKoven center in Racine, WI at a service commemorating James DeKoven

What did Jesus’ death really mean?

No, you will not receive the mark of the beast when you get the vaccine (regardless of what your fundamentalist pastor says). In fact, it is all those who submit themselves to the teaching of fundamentalist pastors who have received the mark already.