Category: Sermons
-
Misericordias Domini (2nd Sunday After Easter) ~ 14th April 2024
The following sermon was not an easy one for me to write, and I’m still not sure how much I like it or how happy I am with it. But I got a fair bit of positive feedback from women from both congregations where I preached this past Sunday. One thing in particular stuck with…
-
Sermon – Last Sunday After Epiphany 2024
I don’t know about you, but these days I feel as if there is a heaviness weighing on everything and everyone. Two young people violently lost their lives these past few days. The press conference about the “ForuM-Studie” on Thursday. The neverending images of war, violence, and death in Gaza, the Ukraine, the Sudan, and…
-
Predigt – Letzter Sonntag nach Epiphanias 2024
Ich weiß nicht, wie es Ihnen und euch geht, aber ich habe dieser Tage das Gefühle, dass eine große Schwere auf allem und auf uns allen lastet. Zwei junge Menschen haben in den vergangenen Tagen gewaltsam ihr Leben verloren. Die Pressekonferenz zur ForuM-Studie am Donnerstag. Die endlosen Bilder von Krieg, Gewalt und Tod aus Gaza,…
-
Good Friday Sermon
Yesterday everything had seemed fine. We were sitting around a table with Jesus and shared a meal. We were happy and I was convinced that everything would remain like this forever. But suddenly Jesus started to talk about his own death again. I didn’t want to hear that. I didn’t want to think about what…
-
Karfreitagspredigt
Gestern noch schien alles in Ordnung zu sein. Wir haben mit Jesus zu Tisch gelegen und zusammen gegessen und getrunken. Die Stimmung war gut und ich war überzeugt es würde immer so weitergehen. Doch auf einmal fing Jesus wieder davon an von seinem eigenen Tod zu sprechen. Ich wollte das nicht hören. Ich wollte nicht…
-
“You are wonderfully made.”
[Translation of my part of the sermon for the “Queerer Gottesdienst” (Queer Service) on September 06, 2022. The theme of the whole service was bisexuality.] Bisexuality. A term that seems to be firmly rooted in binaries. And for a long time that was exactly the case. Being bi meant nothing more or less than being…