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A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock
at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 28 November 2021 [Advent 1]:
Jeremiah 33:14-16; 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21:25-36
The Story's Thread
It’s not a greeting you hear very much anymore: “What’s the story?” Given as a salutation, nowadays we are more likely to ask, “How’s it going?” or “How y’a doin’?” or even the potentially tender inquiry, “How are you?” When we meet, we quite naturally want to catch up with one another to find out how our life is, to learn what’s new – or not -- and to recognize how these events shape us. In these pandemic times, so many events seem to be bombarding us that it is quite easy to lose track of how we are. More to the point, there is so much going on with us that it becomes simply easier to answer these greetings with the deflecting “fine” and move on to discussing the weather or sports or some other innocuous topic that allows us to live in a protective bubble of denial. Read More >>
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