Sometimes I’ve just had enough. Sometimes, I need to get away from it all, turn off the TV with all its disconcerting or even frightening news, turn off my computer, turn off my phone, retreat, close the door and put up a ‘do not disturb’ sign, hike a trail in a remote area, take […]
Sermon Matthew 4:12-23; 3rd Sunday after Epiphany – January 26th, 2020: ‘Hope is our mandate’
It was in August 2018. A 15 year old student from Stockholm in Sweden decided to speak up against climate change. She had studied the issue for a few years and wrote a prize winning essay on the matter in May 2018. The student, Greta Thunberg, started a school strike. From August 20th through […]
Sermon John 1:29-42; 2nd Sunday after the Epiphany – January 19th, 2020: ‘What are you looking for?’
What are you looking for? Everybody’s looking for something, as the Eurythmics state in their song ‘Sweet Dreams’. No matter what age and stage of our lives, there is always a longing, a desire for something. We look for love, for acceptance, for success, financial stability, for adventure, for peace, for meaning for our lives. […]
Sermon Matthew 3:13-17; Baptism of our Lord – January 12th, 2020
As my husband Fred and I were travelling through various National Parks in the American Southwest this past spring, we also visited Bryce Canyon. The landscape is truly breathtaking. However, Fred is also very interested in Native American culture, and likes to hunt for petroglyphs – drawings or etchings on open rock surfaces the […]
Sermon Matthew 2:1-12; 2nd Sunday after Christmas / Epiphany – January 5th, 2020
We are at the beginning of a new decade, and recently there have been quite a few reflections on what has changed since 2010. Well, for one, technology has developed rapidly over the last years. Today we take many things for granted that were still new 10 years ago, and not accessible for […]
Homily Christmas Eve 2019 – Luke 2:1-19
If you didn’t know it already, may have guessed it: I am German, and the internet allows me to follow German media here and there. Last week, I came across an op-ed piece in the German political magazine ‘Der Spiegel’ – ‘The Mirror’, which I read with interest, because it is about Christmas – or, […]