Sermons

Trinity Sunday (Year C)
"I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 30 May 2010
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Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year C)
"Caught in between the now and the not yet"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 16 May 2010
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Third Sunday of Easter (Year C)
"Evil must be met, suffered, and redeemed"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 18 April 2010
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Palm Sunday (Year C)
"Love bade me welcome"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 28 March 2010
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Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year C)
"The Five Stages of Jesus"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 31 January 2010
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Proper 25 (Year B)
"The Priesthood of Christ and the Christian priesthood"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 25 October 2009
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Proper 21 (Year B)
"Drastic measures"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 27 September 2009
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Proper 15 (Year B)
"Anglican fudge, but not Anglican goo"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 16 August 2009
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Proper 6 (Year B)
"The growth of the kingdom does not depend on us"
(The parable of the seed growing secretly)

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 14 June 2009
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Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
"Abide in my love"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 17 May 2009
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Good Friday
"Let us approach the throne of grace with boldness"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 10 April 2009
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Third Sunday after the Epiphany (Year B)
"You can't believe in the good news until you let go of the old news"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 25 January 2009
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Second Sunday of Advent (Year B)
"In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 7 December 2008
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Proper 28 (Year A)
"He will come again to judge"
(The parable of the talents)

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 16 November 2008
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Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
"The liturgy is not a museum piece, but it is a family heirloom"

Preached at Trinity, Iowa City, 2 November 2008
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Proper 21 (Year A)
"Let the same mind be in you"
(The parable of the two sons)

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 28 September 2008
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Trinity Sunday (Year A)
"What the doctrine is, why you should believe it, and why it matters"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 18 May 2008
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Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year C)
"Not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs"

Preached at Saint Mark's, Tampa, 4 February 2007
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Events

July 12-18: 60th Annual Sewanee Church Music Conference

July 28-August 17: Clergy Fellow in Residence, St Paul's, K Street, Washington, DC

Links

I am canonically resident in the Diocese of Iowa.

I serve at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, Tampa, in the Diocese of Southwest Florida.

I graduated from Evangelical Christian School in Memphis in 1984.

I received my B.A. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 1988 and my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1994.

I am Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa.