PacificPilgrim Blog — Michael Anthony Howard

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Kingdom Treasure

Kingdom Treasure

Biophilia, Creation Care, Semon Preparation, Sermons, Year AMichael HowardJuly 30, 2017A Secular Pilgrimage, Climate Change, Kingdom of Heaven, Matthew 13, Parables of Jesus, Pentecost 8A, Wendell Berry

"I desire mercy." Go and learn...

"I desire mercy." Go and learn...

Refelctions, Semon PreparationMichael HowardMay 6, 2017Healing, Jon Sobrino, Mary Douglas, Matthew, Mercy, Miracles, Warren Carter

The Image of a Child

Lectionary Reflections, Peacemaking, Repentance, Semon Preparation, Suffering, Year AMichael HowardNovember 29, 2016Advent 2A, Children, Dostoevsky, Good and Evil, Hope, Isaiah, The Peaceable Kingdom, Violence

Sermon Prep and Lectionary Prayers for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

Sermon Prep and Lectionary Prayers for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

Discipleship, Lectionary Reflections, Liturgical Prayers, nonviolence, Pacific Activism, Peacemaking, Refelctions, Semon Preparation, Year CMichael HowardJuly 12, 2016God's love, Lectionary Prayers, Liturgical Calendar, Love, Pacifism, peacemaking, Prayers, Proper 11C, Repentance

May it be said of you: Bonhoeffer on the death of the city and the conversion of the Church

May it be said of you: Bonhoeffer on the death of the city and the conversion of the Church

Creation Care, Discipleship, Semon PreparationMichael HowardApril 11, 2016Bonhoeffer, Repentance

A Cosmic Revolution: The Jubilee Explosion

Creation Care, Definitions and Reflec..., Discipleship, Lectionary Reflections, Pacific Activism, Peacemaking, Refelctions, Reflection, Semon Preparation, Sermons, The GospelMichael HowardMay 18, 2015Andre Trocme, Cosmic Revolution, Jubilee Explosion

Saints in the hands of a humble heaven

Semon Preparation, The Gospel, Uncategorized, Year AMichael HowardOctober 27, 2014All Saint's Day, Communion, Holiness, Jonathan Edwards, Matthew 23:1-12, Saints

The Revolutionary Politics of Love

Discipleship, Peacemaking, Semon PreparationMichael HowardOctober 20, 2014Divine Image, Judas of Galilee, Love, Matthew 22:34-46, Politics of Love

To hell with the bully god

Semon Preparation, The Gospel, Year AMichael HowardOctober 6, 2014bully god, bullying, hell, Matthew 22, Matthew 22:1-14, Unchosen

A difficult text to preach: Ched Myers and the Parable of the Tenants

A difficult text to preach: Ched Myers and the Parable of the Tenants

In all honesty, the text for this coming Sunday, Matthew 21:33-46, is quite a difficult one to preach.

Semon PreparationMichael HowardSeptember 29, 2014Ant-Semitism, Ched Myers, Discipleship, Matthew 21:33-46, Parable of the Tenants, Repentance, The UNking