Institutional Reckoning

I am a guest at a couple of Iftars this month.  The Iftar is Muslim tradition of breaking of the daily fast at the end of each day of Ramadan.  This year for the first time in decades Ramadan coincides with the Christian season of Lent, and both of our traditions engage in a season […]

In the 1990s, a biblical scholar named Marcus Borg wrote an incredibly popular book—by which I mean that it flew off the shelf at Barnes’ and Noble (when that was a thing)…  He called Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time.  In its opening chapter Borg describes a journey many of us can relate to:  He […]

Today is our Annual Meeting as a congregation.  I always resist talking about church for its own sake.  I suspect you are here not to preserve the church but because of the life and work to which Jesus Christ calls us.  The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church says much the same thing among its very […]

 There’s something going on these days that I probably don’t mention out loud as often as I should.  I know many of you are staying up at night these days or waking up in the morning with a troubling sense that things are not the way they are supposed to be.  You are scared, or […]

For those of you who were not here with us last week, we are entering into a series of sermons this winter and spring about core Christian beliefs, exploring what Christians here at Knox believe about God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.  Last week we looked at the core convictions about God expressed in […]

It’s an interesting time in our culture and country to be Christian.  After decades of significant decline in church and secularization in wider culture, research suggests that the trends are reversing.  Young people, especially, are finding their way back to church; much of the greatest growth is happening in traditional liturgical environments like Catholicism and […]