Date: May 29, 2022

Bible Text: John 17:20–26 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

This is the last in the Easter sermon series Katie and I are preaching called A Collective Murmuration, drawing on the metaphor of a flock of starlings flying in concert. Katie has said that “the synchronicity of starlings lives in the realm of miracle, especially as we

Date: May 22, 2022

Bible Text: John 14:23–29 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Today is Children’s Day. For about seven decades, third graders at Kenilworth Union have learned the Ten Commandments, 23rd Psalm, the Beatitudes, Lord’s Prayer, Greatest Commandment, and Books of the Bible by heart. This year is the first year since 2019 that we have

Date: March 6, 2022

Bible Text: Ecclesiastes 11:1–6 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Lent is marked by peculiar disciplines. We begin by placing ashes on our foreheads. We help the children put away the alleluias so that the notes ring with magnified joy on Easter morning. We might fast or take up a new spiritual practice. Lent is an invitation

Date: February 6, 2022

Bible Text: 5:27–39 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

During the season of Epiphany Bill, Katie and I are exploring Jesus’ early ministry to see what we can learn about Christ-like virtue during this time of pandemic, racial-discord, and divisiveness. Borrowing a phrase from Reinhold Niebuhr who called Jesus the Impossible Possibility, this sermon series is

Date: January 2, 2022

Bible Text: Matthew 2:1–12 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

During Advent and Christmastime we are preaching on Certain Semi-Sacred Symbols of the Season—Candy Canes, Snow, Evergreens, Donkeys. While each of these tangible items illuminates an aspect of our multi-faceted God, none of them have been mentioned in the biblical nativity narratives until today. Today our symbol

Date: October 3, 2021

Bible Text: Acts 2:42–47 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Bill Katie and I are in the middle of a new sermon series, using the book of acts as a blueprint for the birth of the early church and the (re)birth with the re in parentheses of the church as we emerge from the pandemic. In Acts

Date: August 29, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 23:5 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Next week Bill will preach the last sermon in our “How to Love the World Again” series which pairs poetry with each verse of Psalm 23. Today we are delighted to be blessing our children and youth as they return to school. Psalm 23 is very familiar—Kenilworth

Date: August 22, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 23:4b | Reverend Christine V. Hides

  Last week Katie took us on a hike through the Valley of Shadows in our verse by verse journey through Psalm 23 which Bill, Katie and I pair with poetry and reflections from the recent book How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope. Today

Date: July 18, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 82 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Psalm 82 A Plea for Justice God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the

Date: April 18, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 1 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Bill, Katie, and I are excited to begin a new sermon series beginning today. Each week we will highlight one of the groups extraordinary, faithful individuals, whose faces shine through the Malott chapel windows upstairs. The title of this sermon series is taken from the eulogy honoring today’s